CATHERINE BEST MONUMENT IN THE CHURCHYARD OF THE CHURCH OF ST PETER CIRCA 12 METRES SOUTH OF THE TOWER

CATHERINE BEST MONUMENT IN THE CHURCHYARD OF THE CHURCH OF ST PETER CIRCA 12 METRES SOUTH OF THE TOWER, CHURCH ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1152906
Date first listed:: 22-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:: CATHERINE BEST MONUMENT IN THE CHURCHYARD OF THE CHURCH OF ST PETER CIRCA 12 METRES SOUTH OF THE TOWER
Statutory Address:: CATHERINE BEST MONUMENT IN THE CHURCHYARD OF THE CHURCH OF ST PETER CIRCA 12 METRES SOUTH OF THE TOWER, CHURCH ROAD

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Date:: 1999-08-16
Reference:: IOE01/00410/05
Rights:: © Mr Michael Purnell. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1152906
Date first listed:: 22-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:: CATHERINE BEST MONUMENT IN THE CHURCHYARD OF THE CHURCH OF ST PETER CIRCA 12 METRES SOUTH OF THE TOWER
Statutory Address 1:: CATHERINE BEST MONUMENT IN THE CHURCHYARD OF THE CHURCH OF ST PETER CIRCA 12 METRES SOUTH OF THE TOWER, CHURCH ROAD

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:: CATHERINE BEST MONUMENT IN THE CHURCHYARD OF THE CHURCH OF ST PETER CIRCA 12 METRES SOUTH OF THE TOWER, CHURCH ROAD

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

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Cheltenham (District Authority)
Parish:: Leckhampton with Warden Hill
National Grid Reference:: SO 94301 19384

Details

LECKHAMPTON CHURCH ROAD SO 91 NW (south side) 4/116 Catherine Best monument in the churchyard of the Church of St Peter c12m south of the tower

GV II

Tall Go thick style monument to Catherine Best, widow of John Rycroft Best, youngest daughter of Richard Count de Vins, died 1855, and other members of that family. Limestone with large bronze plaque. Pedestal with inscripton on the east and north sides; tall rectangular column above with pointed-arched recess containing a bronze plaque depicting a life-size figure of an angel in relief; the angel holds a cloth on which there is a further inscription; cross finial at the apex; corner pinnacles now lost. The monument lies within a rectangular enclosure with a spear- headed railing.

Listing NGR: SO9430119384

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Legacy System number:: 135066
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.