YARRELL TOMBS AND RAILINGS OF ENCLOSURE 20 METRES TO NORTH WEST OF NAVE

YARRELL TOMBS AND RAILINGS OF ENCLOSURE 20 METRES TO NORTH WEST OF NAVE, CHURCH LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1176682
Date first listed:: 20-Apr-1988
List Entry Name:: YARRELL TOMBS AND RAILINGS OF ENCLOSURE 20 METRES TO NORTH WEST OF NAVE
Statutory Address:: YARRELL TOMBS AND RAILINGS OF ENCLOSURE 20 METRES TO NORTH WEST OF NAVE, CHURCH LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1176682
Date first listed:: 20-Apr-1988
List Entry Name:: YARRELL TOMBS AND RAILINGS OF ENCLOSURE 20 METRES TO NORTH WEST OF NAVE
Statutory Address 1:: YARRELL TOMBS AND RAILINGS OF ENCLOSURE 20 METRES TO NORTH WEST OF NAVE, CHURCH LANE

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:: YARRELL TOMBS AND RAILINGS OF ENCLOSURE 20 METRES TO NORTH WEST OF NAVE, CHURCH LANE

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

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Bayford
National Grid Reference:: TL 30938 08854

Details

TL 3008 BAYFORD CHURCH LANE (West side)

5/20 Yarrell Tombs and Railings of enclosure 20M to NW of nave

GV II

Group of tombstones in railed enclosure. To members of Yarrell family Frances d.1794, Harriot d.1796, Sarah d.1796, Francis d.1812, 7 infants of Frances, and finally William Yarrell 1784-1856 VPLS, FZS, eminent Victorian zoologist and author of A History of British Birds and A History of British Fishes, buried 8 Sept 1856. White limestone head and foot stones, sandstone headstone to William Yarrell, stone weathered curb and original cast iron railings. 9 graves closely grouped in rectangular railed enclosure. Rounded recumbent stone over graves in middle of W row and middle row. Headstones to similar pattern with moulded segmental top with paterae. Cruciform iron spears with pointed bulbous tops in 5 bays to long sides and 3-bays to each end. Fluted square standards surmounted by fluted urns. William Yarrell left £500 in his will for upkeep of the family graves which survive unusually complete with railings. Executors put up inscription in church, gave surplus money to poor of parish, and erected a wall memorial to Yarrell near N aisle of St. James' Church, Piccadilly, with a portrait medallion and 2 Bewick swans as supporters, a bird he discovered and named after his favourite engraver. (HJCK William Yarrell 1784-1856 1984, Bayford - pamphlet available at church).

Listing NGR: TL3093808854

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 160628
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
William Yarrell 1784-1856, (1984)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.