GROUP OF 4 TOMBS C.10-12.5 METRES WEST OF CHURCH OF ST. MARY

GROUP OF 4 TOMBS C.10-12.5 METRES WEST OF CHURCH OF ST. MARY, FRONT STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1121828
Date first listed:: 30-Sep-1987
List Entry Name:: GROUP OF 4 TOMBS C.10-12.5 METRES WEST OF CHURCH OF ST. MARY
Statutory Address:: GROUP OF 4 TOMBS C.10-12.5 METRES WEST OF CHURCH OF ST. MARY, FRONT STREET

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Date:: 1999-08-21
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1121828
Date first listed:: 30-Sep-1987
List Entry Name:: GROUP OF 4 TOMBS C.10-12.5 METRES WEST OF CHURCH OF ST. MARY
Statutory Address 1:: GROUP OF 4 TOMBS C.10-12.5 METRES WEST OF CHURCH OF ST. MARY, FRONT 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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Location

Statutory Address:: GROUP OF 4 TOMBS C.10-12.5 METRES WEST OF CHURCH OF ST. MARY, FRONT STREET

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

District:: County Durham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Cockfield
National Grid Reference:: NZ 12877 24238

Details

COCKFIELD FRONT STREET NZ 12 SW (South side) 9/3 (inset) Group of 4 tombs c.10-12.5 metres west of Church of St. Mary

GV II

Group of 4 headstones. To John Alderson died 1728, Robert Lodge died 1677, Edward Gargranet died 1677, and E.P. and John Pearson died 1715 and 1727. Coarse sandstone slabs c.0.5 metre high: Alderson straight-sided with canted corners; Lodge and Gargranet goblet-shaped with shaped tops; Pearson straight- sided with pointed top. Alderson tomb has low relief angels holding crown; Lodge a moulded surround with top leaf decoration; Gargranet similar to Lodge; and Pearson with central coarse EP 1715, well-cut inscription above and below to John Pearson, and top winged cherubs cut in single scrolly line in style of calligraphy.

Listing NGR: NZ1287724238

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Legacy System number:: 111368
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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.