MINCHIN MONUMENT IN THE CHURCHYARD APPROXIMATELY 5 METRES NORTH OF WELLS MONUMENT TO EAST OF CHURCH OF ST JAMES

MINCHIN MONUMENT IN THE CHURCHYARD APPROXIMATELY 5 METRES NORTH OF WELLS MONUMENT TO EAST OF CHURCH OF ST JAMES, SCHOOL LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1154747
Date first listed:: 30-Sep-1985
List Entry Name:: MINCHIN MONUMENT IN THE CHURCHYARD APPROXIMATELY 5 METRES NORTH OF WELLS MONUMENT TO EAST OF CHURCH OF ST JAMES
Statutory Address:: MINCHIN MONUMENT IN THE CHURCHYARD APPROXIMATELY 5 METRES NORTH OF WELLS MONUMENT TO EAST OF CHURCH OF ST JAMES, SCHOOL LANE

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Date:: 1999-09-09
Reference:: IOE01/00406/12
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1154747
Date first listed:: 30-Sep-1985
List Entry Name:: MINCHIN MONUMENT IN THE CHURCHYARD APPROXIMATELY 5 METRES NORTH OF WELLS MONUMENT TO EAST OF CHURCH OF ST JAMES
Statutory Address 1:: MINCHIN MONUMENT IN THE CHURCHYARD APPROXIMATELY 5 METRES NORTH OF WELLS MONUMENT TO EAST OF CHURCH OF ST JAMES, SCHOOL LANE

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:: MINCHIN MONUMENT IN THE CHURCHYARD APPROXIMATELY 5 METRES NORTH OF WELLS MONUMENT TO EAST OF CHURCH OF ST JAMES, SCHOOL LANE

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

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Gloucester (District Authority)
Parish:: Quedgeley
National Grid Reference:: SO8073814183

Details

SO 81 SW 5/164

QUEDGELEY SCHOOL LANE (north side)

Minchin monument in the churchyard approximately 5m north of Wells monument to east of Church of St. James

GV II

Pedestal tomb. Dated 1756. Limestone. Tall and rectangular, with bow-ends and gadrooned corner balusters. Recessed beaded panel to ends with 5 cherub's heads grouped around sun-burst to west; military trophy to east with central open book. Cartouche in recessed moulded side panels, with 2 cherub's heads under shroud to south. Hollow moulded top; cyma moulded plinth. Inscriptions illegible, but richly modelled decoration. Recorded as inscribed to Christopher Minchin, died 1756. (G. Burgess, English Churchyard Memorials, 1963.)

Listing NGR: SO8073814183

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Burgess, F , English Churchyard Memorials, (1963)

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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.