Tombstone 40 Yards West of Tower
TOMBSTONE 40 YARDS WEST OF TOWER, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1126397
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Tombstone 40 Yards West of Tower
- Statutory Address:
- TOMBSTONE 40 YARDS WEST OF TOWER, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1126397
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Tombstone 40 Yards West of Tower
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOMBSTONE 40 YARDS WEST OF TOWER, HIGH STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- TOMBSTONE 40 YARDS WEST OF TOWER, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- East Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Burwell
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 58903 66062
Details
TL 5866 BURWELL HIGH STREET (West Side)
15/22 Tombstone 40 yards west of tower
II
Tombstone, limestone with large winged heart with flames and skull and cross bones. Modern inscription on back. '8 September 1727', to commemorate the death of seventy-eight people in a barn fire who were attending a puppet-show. Situated c.40 yards to west of tower.
Gathercole, A.F. Burwell and Its Church, p.15, 1972 RCHM, North-East Cambs, p.25, 1972 Gibbons, T. An Account of A Most Terrible Fire. Reprinted C.C.
Listing NGR: TL5890366062
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 48938
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gathercole, A F, Burwell and its Church, (1972), 15
Gibbons, T, An Account of A Most Terrible Fire, ()
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Cambridgeshire North East, (1972)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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