2 SETS OF GRAVESTONES AT HEAD AND FEET OF GRAVES OF ELIZABETH AND PETER MUGRIDGE APPROXIMATELY 5 METRES SOUTH OF SOUTH PORCH OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1163350
Date first listed:: 29-May-1986
List Entry Name:: 2 SETS OF GRAVESTONES AT HEAD AND FEET OF GRAVES OF ELIZABETH AND PETER MUGRIDGE APPROXIMATELY 5 METRES SOUTH OF SOUTH PORCH OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
Statutory Address:: 2 SETS OF GRAVESTONES AT HEAD AND FEET OF GRAVES OF ELIZABETH AND PETER MUGRIDGE APPROXIMATELY 5 METRES SOUTH OF SOUTH PORCH OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL

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Date:: 2001-01-29
Reference:: IOE01/02745/26
Rights:: © Dr Barbara Hilton. Source: Historic England Archive

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1163350
Date first listed:: 29-May-1986
List Entry Name:: 2 SETS OF GRAVESTONES AT HEAD AND FEET OF GRAVES OF ELIZABETH AND PETER MUGRIDGE APPROXIMATELY 5 METRES SOUTH OF SOUTH PORCH OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
Statutory Address 1:: 2 SETS OF GRAVESTONES AT HEAD AND FEET OF GRAVES OF ELIZABETH AND PETER MUGRIDGE APPROXIMATELY 5 METRES SOUTH OF SOUTH PORCH OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL

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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:: 2 SETS OF GRAVESTONES AT HEAD AND FEET OF GRAVES OF ELIZABETH AND PETER MUGRIDGE APPROXIMATELY 5 METRES SOUTH OF SOUTH PORCH OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL

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

County:: Devon
District:: North Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Horwood, Lovacott and Newton Tracey
National Grid Reference:: SS 50210 27676

Details

HORWOOD HORWOOD SS 52 NW 4/55 2 sets of gravestones at head and feet of graves of Elizabeth and Peter Mugridge approximately 5 metres south of south porch of Church of St Michael GV II

2 sets of gravestones. 1773. Slate. Stones to head and feet of each grave, the graves placed side by side, the wife's to the south of the husband's. The headstone of the husband reads "Peter Mugridge of Fremington died 1773", that of the wife with an incised angel's bust to the head records her death in the same year aged 82 The stones to the foot of each grave have shaped heads with carved crossed bones in a foliated surround. His verse reads: "Here you see I am gone before/Before with me you must/When you have run'd out natures race/Be turned into dust", and her verse: "My husband dear/He whent before/One week I could not stay/For unto me pale death was sent/And cal'd me then away".

Listing NGR: SS5021027676

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Legacy System number:: 98759
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.