SIX HEADSTONES RUNNING SOUTH OF SOUTH PORCH OF CHURCH OF SAINT PETER AND SAINT PAUL

SIX HEADSTONES RUNNING SOUTH OF SOUTH PORCH OF CHURCH OF SAINT PETER AND SAINT PAUL, MARKET HILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1125979
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1983
List Entry Name:: SIX HEADSTONES RUNNING SOUTH OF SOUTH PORCH OF CHURCH OF SAINT PETER AND SAINT PAUL
Statutory Address:: SIX HEADSTONES RUNNING SOUTH OF SOUTH PORCH OF CHURCH OF SAINT PETER AND SAINT PAUL, MARKET HILL

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Date:: 2001-07-03
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1125979
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1983
List Entry Name:: SIX HEADSTONES RUNNING SOUTH OF SOUTH PORCH OF CHURCH OF SAINT PETER AND SAINT PAUL
Statutory Address 1:: SIX HEADSTONES RUNNING SOUTH OF SOUTH PORCH OF CHURCH OF SAINT PETER AND SAINT PAUL, MARKET HILL

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:: SIX HEADSTONES RUNNING SOUTH OF SOUTH PORCH OF CHURCH OF SAINT PETER AND SAINT PAUL, MARKET HILL

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

County:: Cambridgeshire
District:: Fenland (District Authority)
Parish:: Chatteris
National Grid Reference:: TL3946286054

Details

1. 5139 TL 383852 7/111

MARKET HILL Row of six headstones running south of south porch of Church of Ss Peter and Paul

II

(i) Headstone, mid C18 of limestone in bas-relief. Angel with trumpet of victory above deceased rising from coffin. Below is rectangular raised and fielded panel flanked by two angels, one with Book of Knowledge, the other with Crown of Glory.

(ii) Headstone, 1730, of limestone. Two engaged ionic columns with entablature and segmental pediment. The tympanum with winged cherubs head as risen soul. Circular panel with inscription, now indecipherable.

(iii) Headstone, similar to (ii), but with Rococo foliate ornament.

(iv) Headstone, limestone, probably Ketton, c1730. This and (v) are larger. Shaped head with a glory of a winged angel with a crown of honour and a sunray. Below is a shouldered panel with rosettes to corners, flanked by scrolls and drops of fruit and flowers.

(v) Headstone, mid C18. Limestone probably Ketton. Similar to (iv) with winged angel above circular panel with leaf border and flowers to corners.

(vi) Headstone, mid C18. Limestone. Two naif winged angels with trumpets of victory supporting a crown of honour. Two female figures with emblems as caryatids flank the inscription.

Listing NGR: TL3946286054

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Legacy System number:: 48069
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.