PAIR OF CHEST TOMBS TO BEAUCHAMP FAMILY AT ABOUT 44 METRES AND 47 METRES NORTH OF WEST END OF CHURCH OF SAINT WENAPPA

PAIR OF CHEST TOMBS TO BEAUCHAMP FAMILY AT ABOUT 44 METRES AND 47 METRES NORTH OF WEST END OF CHURCH OF SAINT WENAPPA, CHURCHTOWN

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1140944
Date first listed:: 03-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:: PAIR OF CHEST TOMBS TO BEAUCHAMP FAMILY AT ABOUT 44 METRES AND 47 METRES NORTH OF WEST END OF CHURCH OF SAINT WENAPPA
Statutory Address:: PAIR OF CHEST TOMBS TO BEAUCHAMP FAMILY AT ABOUT 44 METRES AND 47 METRES NORTH OF WEST END OF CHURCH OF SAINT WENAPPA, CHURCHTOWN

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Date:: 2002-04-07
Reference:: IOE01/06394/14
Rights:: © Mr Peter Gliddon. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1140944
Date first listed:: 03-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:: PAIR OF CHEST TOMBS TO BEAUCHAMP FAMILY AT ABOUT 44 METRES AND 47 METRES NORTH OF WEST END OF CHURCH OF SAINT WENAPPA
Statutory Address 1:: PAIR OF CHEST TOMBS TO BEAUCHAMP FAMILY AT ABOUT 44 METRES AND 47 METRES NORTH OF WEST END 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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Location

Statutory Address:: PAIR OF CHEST TOMBS TO BEAUCHAMP FAMILY AT ABOUT 44 METRES AND 47 METRES NORTH OF WEST END 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:: SW7385040141

Details

SW 74 SW 4/126 GWENNAP CHURCHTOWN Pair of chest tombs to Beauchamp family at about 44 metres and 47 metres north of west end of Church of Saint Wenappa

GV II Pair of chest tombs. Late C18 for the Beauchamp family. White limestone sides with black freestone lids. Each chest is rectangular on plan and are placed centrally within rectangular paved base formerly with railing over outer plinth. Each chest has plinth, bulbous square-on-plan nook corner balusters with leaf carving to waist level and to capitals. Beauchamp coat of arms within pellet moulded vertical oval to ends and panelled sides. Incised lettering to plain lids.

North tomb is to: Robert Beauchamp, died 1--0, and his wife, died 1817, aged 20: Joseph Beauchamp, died 18-0, aged 60.

South tomb: Elizabeth Beauchamp, died 1807, aged 78; Joseph Crammer Beauchamp, died 1--0, and Catherine his wife, died 1791, aged 10 months, (presumably a mistake by the mason) and their daughter Elizabeth Martha Beauchamp, died 17-2, aged 5 years.

Listing NGR: SW7385040141

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Legacy System number:: 63224
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.