PAIR OF CHEST TOMBS, ONE TO MATTHEW WALLER (1516), 5 YARDS TO NORTH EAST OF CHANCEL OF CHURCH OF ST JAMES

PAIR OF CHEST TOMBS, ONE TO MATTHEW WALLER (1516), 5 YARDS TO NORTH EAST OF CHANCEL OF CHURCH OF ST JAMES, CHURCH LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1129756
Date first listed:: 21-Apr-1983
List Entry Name:: PAIR OF CHEST TOMBS, ONE TO MATTHEW WALLER (1516), 5 YARDS TO NORTH EAST OF CHANCEL OF CHURCH OF ST JAMES
Statutory Address:: PAIR OF CHEST TOMBS, ONE TO MATTHEW WALLER (1516), 5 YARDS TO NORTH EAST OF CHANCEL OF CHURCH OF ST JAMES, CHURCH LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1129756
Date first listed:: 21-Apr-1983
List Entry Name:: PAIR OF CHEST TOMBS, ONE TO MATTHEW WALLER (1516), 5 YARDS TO NORTH EAST OF CHANCEL OF CHURCH OF ST JAMES
Statutory Address 1:: PAIR OF CHEST TOMBS, ONE TO MATTHEW WALLER (1516), 5 YARDS TO NORTH EAST OF CHANCEL OF CHURCH OF ST JAMES, CHURCH LANE

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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Statutory Address:: PAIR OF CHEST TOMBS, ONE TO MATTHEW WALLER (1516), 5 YARDS TO NORTH EAST OF CHANCEL OF CHURCH OF ST JAMES, CHURCH LANE

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

District:: North Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Winscombe and Sandford
National Grid Reference:: ST4117356651

Details

ST 45 NW 3/8

WINSCOMBE CHURCH LANE Winscombe Pair of chest tombs, one to Matthew Waller (1516), 5 yards to north-east of Chancel of Church of St James

G.V. II

5 yards to north-east of east end of chancel of St James. Pair of chest tombs: (1) early C.16. Coarsely carved box without embellishment. Plain incised letters. Matthew Waller/Vicar/1516. (2) Late C.18. Inscribed panels, now illegible, pilasters and frieze With memento mori. Plain ashlar slab. Prominent pair. The earliest known chest tomb in the area being that of Matthew Waller.

Listing NGR: ST4117356651

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Legacy System number:: 33276
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.