Group of 3 Gravestones Approximately 18 Metres to East of Church of St James
GROUP OF 3 GRAVESTONES APPROXIMATELY 18 METRES TO EAST OF CHURCH OF ST JAMES, WIDE HOWE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1150053
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Group of 3 Gravestones Approximately 18 Metres to East of Church of St James
- Statutory Address:
- GROUP OF 3 GRAVESTONES APPROXIMATELY 18 METRES TO EAST OF CHURCH OF ST JAMES, WIDE HOWE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1150053
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Group of 3 Gravestones Approximately 18 Metres to East of Church of St James
- Statutory Address 1:
- GROUP OF 3 GRAVESTONES APPROXIMATELY 18 METRES TO EAST OF CHURCH OF ST JAMES, WIDE HOWE LANE
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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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- GROUP OF 3 GRAVESTONES APPROXIMATELY 18 METRES TO EAST OF CHURCH OF ST JAMES, WIDE HOWE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Baldersby
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 36672 76957
Details
SE 37 NE BALDERSBY WIDE HOWE LANE (north side) Baldersby St James 3/25 Group of 3 gravestones approximately 18 metres to east of Church of St James -
GV II
Group of 3 graves of Mary Lane, Sidney Leveson Lane and Viscount Downe to east of church. Mid C19 and early C20. Stone. 2 curbed graves with headstones and 1 coped grave lid. Grave to left commemorating Sidney Leveson Lane, died 1910, has headstone in form of round head cross with fleurée cross in relief on east face. Central grave commemorating Mary Isabel, wife of 7th Viscount Downe and afterwards the wife of Sidney Leveson Lane, has headstone of round-headed cross with fleurée cross in relief on east face. Grave lid to right commemorates Henry, 7th Viscount Downe, date of death illegible, and has Latin cross fleurée in relief. The crosses on the gravestones are similar to that on the graveyard cross (qv) and to that over the church door (qv). Baldersby St James was the last of a series of church groups built by the 7th Viscount Downe 1847-57. He died before St James was completed and his remains were transfered from Topcliffe church when the churchyard was consecrated.
Listing NGR: SE3667276957
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 330401
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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