LANYON CHEST TOMB AT APPROXIMATELY 5 METRES NORTH OF WEST END OF CHURCH OF SAINT MORVAH

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1144351
Date first listed:: 07-Sep-1988
List Entry Name:: LANYON CHEST TOMB AT APPROXIMATELY 5 METRES NORTH OF WEST END OF CHURCH OF SAINT MORVAH
Statutory Address:: LANYON CHEST TOMB AT APPROXIMATELY 5 METRES NORTH OF WEST END OF CHURCH OF SAINT MORVAH

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1144351
Date first listed:: 07-Sep-1988
List Entry Name:: LANYON CHEST TOMB AT APPROXIMATELY 5 METRES NORTH OF WEST END OF CHURCH OF SAINT MORVAH
Statutory Address 1:: LANYON CHEST TOMB AT APPROXIMATELY 5 METRES NORTH OF WEST END OF CHURCH OF SAINT MORVAH

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:: LANYON CHEST TOMB AT APPROXIMATELY 5 METRES NORTH OF WEST END OF CHURCH OF SAINT MORVAH

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

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Morvah
National Grid Reference:: SW 40225 35453

Details

MORVAH MORVAH SW 43 NW 3/188 Lanyon chest tomb at approximately - 5 metres north of west end of Church of Saint Morvah GV II Chest tomb. C18. To the wife of John Lanyon of Lanyon in the parish of Maddern, daughter of Mathias Andrew, died 1769 aged 61 and John Lanyon, died 1784 aged 92. Granite ashlar chest with moulded granite lid with incised slate insert. Rectangular on plan.

Listing NGR: SW4022535453

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Legacy System number:: 70529
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.