TOMBCHEST OF ROBERT AND MARTHA ELLISON, 10 METRES SOUTH WEST OF SOUTH WEST CORNER OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL

TOMBCHEST OF ROBERT AND MARTHA ELLISON, 10 METRES SOUTH WEST OF SOUTH WEST CORNER OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, SHOTWICK VILLAGE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1130549
Date first listed:: 10-Oct-1985
List Entry Name:: TOMBCHEST OF ROBERT AND MARTHA ELLISON, 10 METRES SOUTH WEST OF SOUTH WEST CORNER OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
Statutory Address:: TOMBCHEST OF ROBERT AND MARTHA ELLISON, 10 METRES SOUTH WEST OF SOUTH WEST CORNER OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, SHOTWICK VILLAGE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1130549
Date first listed:: 10-Oct-1985
List Entry Name:: TOMBCHEST OF ROBERT AND MARTHA ELLISON, 10 METRES SOUTH WEST OF SOUTH WEST CORNER OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
Statutory Address 1:: TOMBCHEST OF ROBERT AND MARTHA ELLISON, 10 METRES SOUTH WEST OF SOUTH WEST CORNER OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, SHOTWICK VILLAGE

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: TOMBCHEST OF ROBERT AND MARTHA ELLISON, 10 METRES SOUTH WEST OF SOUTH WEST CORNER OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, SHOTWICK VILLAGE

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

District:: Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Puddington
National Grid Reference:: SJ 33656 71757

Details

SJ 37 SW SHOTWICK C.P. THE VILLAGE (North Side)

3/48 Tombchest of Robert and Martha Ellison, 10m south-west of south-west corner of tower of Church of St Michael.

GV II

Tombchest: earliest date 1812. Buff sandstone. Neo-classical style. Moulded plinth carries clasping pilasters with Adam style detailing. End panels have circular bosses of acanthus leaves. Side panels have elliptical inscribed tablets surrounded by radiating gadrooning, the inscription beginning "Underneath" in highly ornate copperplate. Plain cornice to now damaged top slab.

Listing NGR: SJ3365671757

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Legacy System number:: 55694
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.