NICHOLAS GROBHAM TOMB, 3 METRES SOUTH-WEST OF PORCH, CHURCH OF ST MARY

NICHOLAS GROBHAM TOMB, 3 METRES SOUTH-WEST OF PORCH, CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1175076
Date first listed:: 04-May-1984
List Entry Name:: NICHOLAS GROBHAM TOMB, 3 METRES SOUTH-WEST OF PORCH, CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address:: NICHOLAS GROBHAM TOMB, 3 METRES SOUTH-WEST OF PORCH, CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1175076
Date first listed:: 04-May-1984
List Entry Name:: NICHOLAS GROBHAM TOMB, 3 METRES SOUTH-WEST OF PORCH, CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address 1:: NICHOLAS GROBHAM TOMB, 3 METRES SOUTH-WEST OF PORCH, CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH STREET

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: NICHOLAS GROBHAM TOMB, 3 METRES SOUTH-WEST OF PORCH, CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH STREET

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Bishop's Lydeard
National Grid Reference:: ST 16786 29741

Details

ST1629 BISHOP'S LYDEARD CP CHURCH STREET (West side)

10/19 Nicholas Grobham tomb, 3 metres South-west of porch, Church of St Mary ¯

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Nicholas Grobham chest tomb. Circa 1600. Ham stone top, Dundry stone sides. Flat topped, plain chamfer cornice otherwise unadorned except for attached brass plaque at East end in memory of Nicholas Grobham, died 1594, and his wife Eleanor, who also have a brass in the church (qv). Their son founded the Bishop's Lydeard almshouses (qv).

Listing NGR: ST1678629741

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 270231
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.