STERNE MEMORIAL IN 4TH BAY ON SOUTH SIDE OF NAVE OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL

STERNE MEMORIAL IN 4TH BAY ON SOUTH SIDE OF NAVE OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, VILLAGE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1150759
Date first listed:: 24-Nov-1988
List Entry Name:: STERNE MEMORIAL IN 4TH BAY ON SOUTH SIDE OF NAVE OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
Statutory Address:: STERNE MEMORIAL IN 4TH BAY ON SOUTH SIDE OF NAVE OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, VILLAGE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1150759
Date first listed:: 24-Nov-1988
List Entry Name:: STERNE MEMORIAL IN 4TH BAY ON SOUTH SIDE OF NAVE OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
Statutory Address 1:: STERNE MEMORIAL IN 4TH BAY ON SOUTH SIDE OF NAVE OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, VILLAGE STREET

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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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Statutory Address:: STERNE MEMORIAL IN 4TH BAY ON SOUTH SIDE OF NAVE OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, VILLAGE STREET

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District:: North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Coxwold
National Park:: NORTH YORK MOORS
National Grid Reference:: SE5330677198

Details

COXWOLD VILLAGE STREET SE 5277-5377 (south side) 9/39 Sterne Memorial in 4th bay on south side of nave of Church of St Michael GV II

Tombstone c1768, moved to present position 1969. Commemorating Rev Laurence Sterne, perpetual curate of Coxwold 1760-68. White stone slab with wave-shaped head. Long inscription about Sterne the writer. The tombstone was erected by two brother freemasons in Bayswater churchyard as Sterne died in Bond Street, London. When, in 1969, that churchyard was being cleared for redevelopment, his bones and tombstone were removed to Coxwold.

Listing NGR: SE5330677198

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Legacy System number:: 332748
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.