BILLY BRAY'S GRAVE AT APPROX 4M SOUTH OF BALDHU CHURCH

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1159615
Date first listed:: 12-Mar-1986
List Entry Name:: BILLY BRAY'S GRAVE AT APPROX 4M SOUTH OF BALDHU CHURCH
Statutory Address:: BILLY BRAY'S GRAVE AT APPROX 4M SOUTH OF BALDHU CHURCH

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1159615
Date first listed:: 12-Mar-1986
List Entry Name:: BILLY BRAY'S GRAVE AT APPROX 4M SOUTH OF BALDHU CHURCH
Statutory Address 1:: BILLY BRAY'S GRAVE AT APPROX 4M SOUTH OF BALDHU CHURCH

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:: BILLY BRAY'S GRAVE AT APPROX 4M SOUTH OF BALDHU CHURCH

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

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Kea
National Grid Reference:: SW7720943165

Details

SW 74 SE KEA

1/129 Billy Bray's Grave at approx 4m south of Baldhu Church

II

Grave with memorial obelisk. Finely dressed granite. Circa late C19 to Billy Bray, died 1868. Rectangular grave with low chamfered border, and with obelisk on inscribed pedestal with moulded base and cornice at west end. Inscription in incised thick grotesque lettering to east, north and south. East inscription: IN MEMORY OF WILLIAM BETTER KNOWN AS BILLY BRAY WHO DIED AT TWELVEHEADS, MAY 25TH 1868 AGED 73 YEARS. South inscription: BY HIS SANCTIFIED WIT, CHRISTIAN SIMPLICITY, FERVENT FAITH AND MANY SELF-DENYING LABOURS, HE COMMENDED HIMSELF TO A WIDE CIRCLE OF FRIENDS WHILE LIVING, AND THE PUBLISHED RECORD SINCE HIS DEATH OF HIS MEMORABLE SAYINGS AND DOINGS HAS MADE HIS NAME FAMILIAR AS A HOUSEHOLD WORD IN OUR OWN AND OTHER LANDS. North inscription: HE WAS A LOCAL PREACHER WITH THE BIBLE CHRISTIANS FORTY-THREE YEARS. Alongside is grave to Sarah, wife of James Bray.

Listing NGR: SW7720943165

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Legacy System number:: 63413
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.