COOKE HEADSTONE APPROXIMATELY 33 METRES SOUTH SOUTH WEST OF THE TOWER OF THE CHURCH OF ST GILES

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1147891
Date first listed:: 16-Feb-1989
List Entry Name:: COOKE HEADSTONE APPROXIMATELY 33 METRES SOUTH SOUTH WEST OF THE TOWER OF THE CHURCH OF ST GILES
Statutory Address:: COOKE HEADSTONE APPROXIMATELY 33 METRES SOUTH SOUTH WEST OF THE TOWER OF THE CHURCH OF ST GILES

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1147891
Date first listed:: 16-Feb-1989
List Entry Name:: COOKE HEADSTONE APPROXIMATELY 33 METRES SOUTH SOUTH WEST OF THE TOWER OF THE CHURCH OF ST GILES
Statutory Address 1:: COOKE HEADSTONE APPROXIMATELY 33 METRES SOUTH SOUTH WEST OF THE TOWER OF THE CHURCH OF ST GILES

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:: COOKE HEADSTONE APPROXIMATELY 33 METRES SOUTH SOUTH WEST OF THE TOWER OF THE CHURCH OF ST GILES

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

County:: Devon
District:: Torridge (District Authority)
Parish:: St. Giles in the Wood
National Grid Reference:: SS 53298 18935

Details

ST GILES ST GILES IN THE WOOD SS 53 18 IN THE WOOD 18/240 Cooke headstone approximately 33 - metres south-south-west of the tower of the Church of St Giles

GV II

Headstone. Dated 1777 in memory of Michael Cooke. Slate. Upright square-headed slab standing approximately 500 millimetres high. The top corners are carved with scrolled decoration. The first word of the inscription is in ornamental italic lettering, the rest is Roman serif upper and lower case lettering. It records the death of Michael Cooke in 1777. This stone has been moved to here.

Listing NGR: SS5329818935

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Legacy System number:: 91851
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.