SHALTER TOMB CIRCA 20 METRES SOUTH-WEST OF CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST

SHALTER TOMB CIRCA 20 METRES SOUTH-WEST OF CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, FRONT STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1159811
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1988
List Entry Name:: SHALTER TOMB CIRCA 20 METRES SOUTH-WEST OF CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST
Statutory Address:: SHALTER TOMB CIRCA 20 METRES SOUTH-WEST OF CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, FRONT STREET

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Date:: 1999-08-05
Reference:: IOE01/00778/30
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1159811
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1988
List Entry Name:: SHALTER TOMB CIRCA 20 METRES SOUTH-WEST OF CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST
Statutory Address 1:: SHALTER TOMB CIRCA 20 METRES SOUTH-WEST OF CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, FRONT STREET

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: SHALTER TOMB CIRCA 20 METRES SOUTH-WEST OF CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, FRONT STREET

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

District:: County Durham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Spennymoor
National Grid Reference:: NZ 26200 31430

Details

NZ 23 SE SPENNYMOOR FRONT STREET (North side) Kirk Merrington

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Shalter tomb circa 20 metres south-west of Church of St John the Evangelist

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Headstone. Circa 1706 to Eleanor and Jane Shalter. Sandstone ashlar slab, c.0.5 metre high, with shaped top. Each side has patterned edge, with paired leaves below 2 top paterae. Beaded pendant from centre of leaves divides surface into 2, inscribed

ELEANOR, JANE SHALTER SHALTER INTERD INTERD THE 15 THE 28

(eroded) 1706

Reverse has similar border and paired leaves over skull, heart and crossed bones, the heart at centre and flanked by hourglasses; paterae above and below hourglasses.

Listing NGR: NZ2620031430

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Legacy System number:: 112249
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.