TOMB CHEST OF DRUE FAMILY IN CHURCHYARD 10M SOUTH EAST OF DENBURY CHURCH PORCH

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1170249
Date first listed:: 14-Oct-1984
List Entry Name:: TOMB CHEST OF DRUE FAMILY IN CHURCHYARD 10M SOUTH EAST OF DENBURY CHURCH PORCH
Statutory Address:: TOMB CHEST OF DRUE FAMILY IN CHURCHYARD 10M SOUTH EAST OF DENBURY CHURCH PORCH

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1170249
Date first listed:: 14-Oct-1984
List Entry Name:: TOMB CHEST OF DRUE FAMILY IN CHURCHYARD 10M SOUTH EAST OF DENBURY CHURCH PORCH
Statutory Address 1:: TOMB CHEST OF DRUE FAMILY IN CHURCHYARD 10M SOUTH EAST OF DENBURY CHURCH PORCH

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:: TOMB CHEST OF DRUE FAMILY IN CHURCHYARD 10M SOUTH EAST OF DENBURY CHURCH PORCH

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

County:: Devon
District:: Teignbridge (District Authority)
Parish:: Denbury and Torbryan
National Grid Reference:: SX 82385 68830

Details

SK 86 NW TORBRYAN DENBURY VILLAGE

4/37 Tomb Chest of Drue Family - in Churchyard 10m south east of Denbury Church Porch GV II

Stone tomb chest, with brick repairs, about ten metres south-east of church porch. Late C17 or earl C18. Slab or local 'marble' on top commemorates Benjamin Due Senior, buried 1696, his wife Rebekah, buried 1684, and their children. Small slab of same stone on west end of chest is inscribed: "Here lyeth him and all that was deare unto his parents three and twenty year/Then all you that are young and do pas by remember all-that you must die/B.D."

Listing NGR: SX8238568830

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Legacy System number:: 84315
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.