BERRY HEADSTONE APPROXIMATELY 1 METRE NORTH-EAST OF VESTRY OF THE CHURCH OF ST JOHN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1169681
Date first listed:: 16-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:: BERRY HEADSTONE APPROXIMATELY 1 METRE NORTH-EAST OF VESTRY OF THE CHURCH OF ST JOHN
Statutory Address:: BERRY HEADSTONE APPROXIMATELY 1 METRE NORTH-EAST OF VESTRY OF THE CHURCH OF ST JOHN

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1169681
Date first listed:: 16-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:: BERRY HEADSTONE APPROXIMATELY 1 METRE NORTH-EAST OF VESTRY OF THE CHURCH OF ST JOHN
Statutory Address 1:: BERRY HEADSTONE APPROXIMATELY 1 METRE NORTH-EAST OF VESTRY OF THE CHURCH OF ST JOHN

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:: BERRY HEADSTONE APPROXIMATELY 1 METRE NORTH-EAST OF VESTRY OF THE CHURCH OF ST JOHN

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

County:: Devon
District:: East Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Yarcombe
National Grid Reference:: ST 24573 08200

Details

YARCOMBE YARCOMBE ST 20 NW 7/187 Berry headstone approximately 1 - metre north-east of Vestry of the Church of St John GV II Headstone. Dated 1760 in memory of an unamed daughter of Samuel Berry. Hamstone. Upright slab standing approximately 1.5 metre high. Its shaped head is carved with a winged cherubs head flanked by scrolls. The panel below is surrounded by a frame enriched with scrolled foliage and flowers. The first word of the inscription is in Gothic lettering, the rest is in Roman serif upper and lower case lettering. It records the death of an unnamed (presumably un-Christened) infant daughter of Samuel Berry.

Listing NGR: ST2457008206

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Legacy System number:: 86741
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.