HARVEY TOMB AT APPROXIMATELY 2 METRES NORTH OF WEST END OF CHURCH OF SAINT WINNEAR

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1143695
Date first listed:: 14-Jan-1988
List Entry Name:: HARVEY TOMB AT APPROXIMATELY 2 METRES NORTH OF WEST END OF CHURCH OF SAINT WINNEAR
Statutory Address:: HARVEY TOMB AT APPROXIMATELY 2 METRES NORTH OF WEST END OF CHURCH OF SAINT WINNEAR

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1143695
Date first listed:: 14-Jan-1988
List Entry Name:: HARVEY TOMB AT APPROXIMATELY 2 METRES NORTH OF WEST END OF CHURCH OF SAINT WINNEAR
Statutory Address 1:: HARVEY TOMB AT APPROXIMATELY 2 METRES NORTH OF WEST END OF CHURCH OF SAINT WINNEAR

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:: HARVEY TOMB AT APPROXIMATELY 2 METRES NORTH OF WEST END OF CHURCH OF SAINT WINNEAR

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

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Gwinear-Gwithian
National Grid Reference:: SW 59488 37381

Details

GWINEAR-GWITHIAN GWINEAR CHURCHTOWN SW 53 NE 4/27 Harvey tomb at approximately 2 metres north of west end of Church - of Saint Winnear

GV II Chest tomb. Circa 1850. To John Harvey, who established a foundry at Hayle, died 1803 aged 73 ; Joanna (Pearce) died 1807, aged 73 and Henry their son, died 1850 aged 73, after an active life in which he largely developed the harbour of Hayle together with the foundry and the trade at that port. Dressed and polished granite. Rectangular-on-plan sarcophagus chest standing within an outer kerb with fence. The chest has a moulded plinth and cornice and hipped lid ; the fence has 8 cast-iron trust stanchions with acanthus plinths and ball finials carrying chains with alternate rectangular and spiked links. The ironwork is presumably by the family firm (Harveys of Hayle). John Harvey and Anne Pearce were the parents of Jane who married Richard Trevithick, the famous engineer.

Listing NGR: SW5948737383

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Legacy System number:: 70122
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.