ROW OF 4 BRADDON HEADSTONES ABOUT 8 METRES NORTH OF THE TOWER OF THE CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1165731
Date first listed:: 07-Nov-1985
List Entry Name:: ROW OF 4 BRADDON HEADSTONES ABOUT 8 METRES NORTH OF THE TOWER OF THE CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST
Statutory Address:: ROW OF 4 BRADDON HEADSTONES ABOUT 8 METRES NORTH OF THE TOWER OF THE CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1165731
Date first listed:: 07-Nov-1985
List Entry Name:: ROW OF 4 BRADDON HEADSTONES ABOUT 8 METRES NORTH OF THE TOWER OF THE CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST
Statutory Address 1:: ROW OF 4 BRADDON HEADSTONES ABOUT 8 METRES NORTH OF THE TOWER OF THE CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST

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:: ROW OF 4 BRADDON HEADSTONES ABOUT 8 METRES NORTH OF THE TOWER OF THE CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST

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

County:: Devon
District:: West Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Stowford
National Grid Reference:: SX 43251 87042

Details

SX 48 NW STOWFORD STOWFORD

3/296 Row of 4 Braddon headstones about - 8m north of the tower of the Church of St John the Baptist

GV II

Row of 4 headstones. Early to late C18. Slate. All the headstones have shaped scrolly heads. The northernmost commemorates Richard Braddon, died 1783. The next to the south commemorates Mary Braddon, buried 1752. The next to the south commemorates Elizabeth Braddon, buried 1759 with stylized flowers and foliage carved in the head. The southernmost is unusually wide and commemorates John Braddon, buried 1740, stylized flowers and foliage carved in the head.

Listing NGR: SX4324787050

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Legacy System number:: 92537
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.