ROW OF FIVE HEADSTONES IN CHURCHYARD OF FORMER PARISH CHURCH OF ST ANDREW (NOW DEMOLISHED) 40 YARDS FROM THE ROAD

ROW OF FIVE HEADSTONES IN CHURCHYARD OF FORMER PARISH CHURCH OF ST ANDREW (NOW DEMOLISHED) 40 YARDS FROM THE ROAD, CONNINGTON FEN ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1130156
Date first listed:: 02-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: ROW OF FIVE HEADSTONES IN CHURCHYARD OF FORMER PARISH CHURCH OF ST ANDREW (NOW DEMOLISHED) 40 YARDS FROM THE ROAD
Statutory Address:: ROW OF FIVE HEADSTONES IN CHURCHYARD OF FORMER PARISH CHURCH OF ST ANDREW (NOW DEMOLISHED) 40 YARDS FROM THE ROAD, CONNINGTON FEN ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1130156
Date first listed:: 02-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: ROW OF FIVE HEADSTONES IN CHURCHYARD OF FORMER PARISH CHURCH OF ST ANDREW (NOW DEMOLISHED) 40 YARDS FROM THE ROAD
Statutory Address 1:: ROW OF FIVE HEADSTONES IN CHURCHYARD OF FORMER PARISH CHURCH OF ST ANDREW (NOW DEMOLISHED) 40 YARDS FROM THE ROAD, CONNINGTON FEN ROAD

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:: ROW OF FIVE HEADSTONES IN CHURCHYARD OF FORMER PARISH CHURCH OF ST ANDREW (NOW DEMOLISHED) 40 YARDS FROM THE ROAD, CONNINGTON FEN ROAD

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

County:: Cambridgeshire
District:: Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Sawtry
National Grid Reference:: TL 17559 83920

Details

TL 18 SE SAWTRY CONINGTON FEN ROAD (East Side) 5/54 Row of five headstones in churchyard of former Parish Church of St Andrew (now demolished) 40 yards from road

GV II Row of five headstones. C18. Limestone. Comprising: ( i) Headstone. C18. Limestone. Segmental broken pediment with pair of winged cherubs' heads above an oval tablet carved with inscription in Gothick, Roman and Italic lettering in low relief. Border of acanthus and rose, acorn and other emblems. ( ii) Headstone, similar to (i). (iii) Headstone. C18. Limestone. Segmental head with paired winged cherubs heads above effigy of deceased and below a square tablet with inscription in Gothick and Roman lettering and the date 17(3?)6. The tablet is flanked by naif Atlantes bearing flaming torches on pedestals, the dies of which are carved with emblems of mortality. ( iv) Headstone. 1728. Limestone. Open segmental head with urn above square tablet carved in low relief flanked by a border of acanthus and rose carving and below the Resurrection flanked by Atlantes. ( v) Headstone. C18. Shaped head with pair of winged cherubs above carved tablet enriched with foliate bosses. Raised tablet with inscription in Gothick and Roman lettering in low relief.

Listing NGR: TL1755983920

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Legacy System number:: 54686
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.