CHAPPLE CHEST TOMB, HUXTABLE HEADSTONE AND 2 ACCOMPANYING STONES BEARING VERSES ABOUT 2 METRES SOUTH WEST OF SOUTH PORCH OF CHURCH OF ST PETER

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1161322
Date first listed:: 13-May-1987
List Entry Name:: CHAPPLE CHEST TOMB, HUXTABLE HEADSTONE AND 2 ACCOMPANYING STONES BEARING VERSES ABOUT 2 METRES SOUTH WEST OF SOUTH PORCH OF CHURCH OF ST PETER
Statutory Address:: CHAPPLE CHEST TOMB, HUXTABLE HEADSTONE AND 2 ACCOMPANYING STONES BEARING VERSES ABOUT 2 METRES SOUTH WEST OF SOUTH PORCH OF CHURCH OF ST PETER

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1161322
Date first listed:: 13-May-1987
List Entry Name:: CHAPPLE CHEST TOMB, HUXTABLE HEADSTONE AND 2 ACCOMPANYING STONES BEARING VERSES ABOUT 2 METRES SOUTH WEST OF SOUTH PORCH OF CHURCH OF ST PETER
Statutory Address 1:: CHAPPLE CHEST TOMB, HUXTABLE HEADSTONE AND 2 ACCOMPANYING STONES BEARING VERSES ABOUT 2 METRES SOUTH WEST OF SOUTH PORCH OF CHURCH OF ST PETER

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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:: CHAPPLE CHEST TOMB, HUXTABLE HEADSTONE AND 2 ACCOMPANYING STONES BEARING VERSES ABOUT 2 METRES SOUTH WEST OF SOUTH PORCH OF CHURCH OF ST PETER

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

County:: Devon
District:: North Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: East and West Buckland
National Grid Reference:: SS 65686 31298

Details

EAST AND WEST BUCKLAND WEST BUCKLAND SS 63 SE 3/74 Chapple chest tomb, Huxtable - headstone and 2 accompanying stones bearing verses about 2 metres south-west of south porch of Church of St Peter GV II

Chest tomb, headstone and 2 accompanying gravestones. Mid C19. Chest tomb by T Britton. Chest tomb slate slab on brick plinth. Headstones slate. Chest tomb with deeply incised borders and decoration to the head of the slate slab with verse 'Behold He taketh away/who can hinder him/who will say unto him what doest thou?' To memory of members of Chapple Family. Slate headstone with incised decoration to the borders 'to perpetuate the memory of the last of the Huxtables of Leary... Landowners of Parts of Leary before the Days of Oliver Cromwell.' Accompanying 2 stones to south with verses, that to left side is nowy arched.

Listing NGR: SS6568631298

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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.