HILL CHEST TOMB AND 2 OTHER CHEST TOMBS ABOUT 3 METRES SOUTH EAST OF THE CHANCEL OF THE CHURCH OF ST MORWENNA

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1141775
Date first listed:: 09-Sep-1985
List Entry Name:: HILL CHEST TOMB AND 2 OTHER CHEST TOMBS ABOUT 3 METRES SOUTH EAST OF THE CHANCEL OF THE CHURCH OF ST MORWENNA
Statutory Address:: HILL CHEST TOMB AND 2 OTHER CHEST TOMBS ABOUT 3 METRES SOUTH EAST OF THE CHANCEL OF THE CHURCH OF ST MORWENNA

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1141775
Date first listed:: 09-Sep-1985
List Entry Name:: HILL CHEST TOMB AND 2 OTHER CHEST TOMBS ABOUT 3 METRES SOUTH EAST OF THE CHANCEL OF THE CHURCH OF ST MORWENNA
Statutory Address 1:: HILL CHEST TOMB AND 2 OTHER CHEST TOMBS ABOUT 3 METRES SOUTH EAST OF THE CHANCEL OF THE CHURCH OF ST MORWENNA

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:: HILL CHEST TOMB AND 2 OTHER CHEST TOMBS ABOUT 3 METRES SOUTH EAST OF THE CHANCEL OF THE CHURCH OF ST MORWENNA

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

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Morwenstow
National Grid Reference:: SS2052215303

Details

SS 21 NW MORWENSTOW MORWENSTOW

1/100 Hill Chest Tomb and 2 other - chest tombs about 3 metres south east of the chancel of the Church of St Morwenna GV II

Group of 3 chest tombs. Hill memorial late C17/early C18; memorial to the west of the Hill memorial early C17; westernmost memorial probably late C18. Freestone ashlar and slate. Rectangular chests with inscribed slate lids. Easternmost chest commemorates John Hill, died 1697, and Martha Hill, died 1714. Angels heads carved in spandrels on lid. Tomb to the west of the Hill memorial has illegible inscription carved on the border of the lid, legible date of 1632. 3rd and westernmost chest tomb of the group has illegible inscription, date may be 1792.

Listing NGR: SS2052215303

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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.