BASSET MONUMENT APPROXIMATELY 15 METRES SOUTH-EAST OF TOWER OF FORMER CHURCH OF ST ILLOGAN

BASSET MONUMENT APPROXIMATELY 15 METRES SOUTH-EAST OF TOWER OF FORMER CHURCH OF ST ILLOGAN, CHURCH ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1142602
Date first listed:: 12-Sep-1989
List Entry Name:: BASSET MONUMENT APPROXIMATELY 15 METRES SOUTH-EAST OF TOWER OF FORMER CHURCH OF ST ILLOGAN
Statutory Address:: BASSET MONUMENT APPROXIMATELY 15 METRES SOUTH-EAST OF TOWER OF FORMER CHURCH OF ST ILLOGAN, CHURCH ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1142602
Date first listed:: 12-Sep-1989
List Entry Name:: BASSET MONUMENT APPROXIMATELY 15 METRES SOUTH-EAST OF TOWER OF FORMER CHURCH OF ST ILLOGAN
Statutory Address 1:: BASSET MONUMENT APPROXIMATELY 15 METRES SOUTH-EAST OF TOWER OF FORMER CHURCH OF ST ILLOGAN, CHURCH 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:: BASSET MONUMENT APPROXIMATELY 15 METRES SOUTH-EAST OF TOWER OF FORMER CHURCH OF ST ILLOGAN, CHURCH ROAD

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

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Illogan
National Grid Reference:: SW6714844049

Details

ILLOGAN CHURCH ROAD SW 64 SE (west side) 10/184 Churchtown Basset monument approx,15 metres south-east of tower of former Church of St Illogan GV II Monumental sarcophagus. Commemorates John Pendarves Basset (d.1739). Grey marble with white marble tablets. Four moulded feet, steeply angled sides and ends, bolection-moulded top, lid with rounded ends, moulded rim, and humped upper surface with a ball finial. Attached to the north end is a cartouche, and to the sides large lettered panels, that on the north side inscribed:- JOHN PENDARVES BASSET died six of Sept. MDCCXXXIX aged xxv years followed by a lengthy epitaph which continues on the south side. The south panel is cracked near the bottom edge, and the lettering on both is heavily weathered.

Listing NGR: SW6714844049

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Legacy System number:: 66740
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.