CHEST TOMB TO WILLIAM THOMPSON, 8 METRES WEST OF CHURCH OF ST GILES

CHEST TOMB TO WILLIAM THOMPSON, 8 METRES WEST OF CHURCH OF ST GILES, THE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1121035
Date first listed:: 17-Jun-1986
List Entry Name:: CHEST TOMB TO WILLIAM THOMPSON, 8 METRES WEST OF CHURCH OF ST GILES
Statutory Address:: CHEST TOMB TO WILLIAM THOMPSON, 8 METRES WEST OF CHURCH OF ST GILES, THE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1121035
Date first listed:: 17-Jun-1986
List Entry Name:: CHEST TOMB TO WILLIAM THOMPSON, 8 METRES WEST OF CHURCH OF ST GILES
Statutory Address 1:: CHEST TOMB TO WILLIAM THOMPSON, 8 METRES WEST OF CHURCH OF ST GILES, THE STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: CHEST TOMB TO WILLIAM THOMPSON, 8 METRES WEST OF CHURCH OF ST GILES, THE STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: County Durham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Bowes
National Grid Reference:: NY 99269 13512

Details

BOWES THE STREET NY 9913 (South side, off) 33/29 Chest tomb to William Thompson, 8.0 metres west of Church of St. Giles II Chest tomb. 1790 to William Thompson. Sandstone.

Horizontal slab with rounded edge, rests on fluted corner piers. Moulded side panels between piers, with key-fret border. South panel inscribed:

Weep not for me, my (course) is done, Death has eclipsed my morning sun, My soul triumphs in (illegible), Of joy and everlasting days.

Listing NGR: NY9926913512

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Legacy System number:: 111191
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.