Canopied tomb of a member of the Venables Family in Churchyard of St. Mary at NGR SJ 84644 61570

Church of St Mary, The Green

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1161887
Date first listed:: 26-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: Canopied tomb of a member of the Venables Family in Churchyard of St. Mary at NGR SJ 84644 61570
Statutory Address:: Church of St Mary, The Green

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1161887
Date first listed:: 26-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: Canopied tomb of a member of the Venables Family in Churchyard of St. Mary at NGR SJ 84644 61570
Statutory Address 1:: Church of St Mary, The Green

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:: Church of St Mary, The Green

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

District:: Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Newbold Astbury
National Grid Reference:: SJ8464461570

Details

SJ 86 SW 4/55 SJ 8463 6158 NEWBOLD ASTBURY C.P. THE GREEN Canopied tomb of a member of the Venables Family in Churchyard of St. Mary at NGR SJ 84644 61570

GV II* Graveyard tomb, originally within the church. Late C13. Yellow sandstone ashlar. Canopied tomb. Diagonal buttresses to the corners. Moulded plinth with a band of quatrefoil tracery. Moulded top to the slab which has two heavily effaced figures, one male and one female, their hands clasped in prayer. The canopy has a shallow arch with foiled outline and C17 crocketed pinnacles above. The outer faces of the end walls have blind tracery with mouchettes and to the inner side above the figures' heads a C16 inscription claiming the tomb as that of a Brereton. It is more likely to be of a member of the Venables family. The crocketed pinnacles to the top appear to be of C17 date.

Listing NGR: SJ84644 61570

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Legacy System number:: 56525
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Cartlidge, Reverend J E G, A Short History of the Church of St Mary Astbury Cheshire, (1970)

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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.