CHEST TOMB TO ALFORD FAMILY AT ABOUT 15M SOUTH OF CHURCH OF SAINT WENAPPA

CHEST TOMB TO ALFORD FAMILY AT ABOUT 15M SOUTH OF CHURCH OF SAINT WENAPPA, CHURCHTOWN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1136500
Date first listed:: 03-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:: CHEST TOMB TO ALFORD FAMILY AT ABOUT 15M SOUTH OF CHURCH OF SAINT WENAPPA
Statutory Address:: CHEST TOMB TO ALFORD FAMILY AT ABOUT 15M SOUTH OF CHURCH OF SAINT WENAPPA, CHURCHTOWN

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1136500
Date first listed:: 03-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:: CHEST TOMB TO ALFORD FAMILY AT ABOUT 15M SOUTH OF CHURCH OF SAINT WENAPPA
Statutory Address 1:: CHEST TOMB TO ALFORD FAMILY AT ABOUT 15M SOUTH OF CHURCH OF SAINT WENAPPA, CHURCHTOWN

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:: CHEST TOMB TO ALFORD FAMILY AT ABOUT 15M SOUTH OF CHURCH OF SAINT WENAPPA, CHURCHTOWN

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

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Gwennap
National Grid Reference:: SW7388940084

Details

GWENNAP CHURCHTOWN, Gwennap SW 74 SW 4/123 Chest tomb to Alford family at - about 15m south of Church of Saint Wenappa GV II Chest tomb. Early C19. Granite ashlar sides, slate lid within granite border. Rectangular on plan orientated roughly west to east. Projecting lid has cavetto and bullnose border. Slate slab has incised lettering with inscription to: John Alford, died 1828, aged 72; Elizabeth wife of John Alford , died 1811, aged 72; Elizabeth Bawden ......... and Richard Harvey Bawden, died 1879, aged 79.

Listing NGR: SW7388940084

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Legacy System number:: 63221
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.