MEYRICK MEMORIAL APPROXIMATELY 6 METRES NORTH-WEST OF NORTH WALL OF CHURCH OF ST GILES AND RAILED ENCLOSURE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1178409
Date first listed:: 03-Jul-1985
List Entry Name:: MEYRICK MEMORIAL APPROXIMATELY 6 METRES NORTH-WEST OF NORTH WALL OF CHURCH OF ST GILES AND RAILED ENCLOSURE
Statutory Address:: MEYRICK MEMORIAL APPROXIMATELY 6 METRES NORTH-WEST OF NORTH WALL OF CHURCH OF ST GILES AND RAILED ENCLOSURE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1178409
Date first listed:: 03-Jul-1985
List Entry Name:: MEYRICK MEMORIAL APPROXIMATELY 6 METRES NORTH-WEST OF NORTH WALL OF CHURCH OF ST GILES AND RAILED ENCLOSURE
Statutory Address 1:: MEYRICK MEMORIAL APPROXIMATELY 6 METRES NORTH-WEST OF NORTH WALL OF CHURCH OF ST GILES AND RAILED ENCLOSURE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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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Statutory Address:: MEYRICK MEMORIAL APPROXIMATELY 6 METRES NORTH-WEST OF NORTH WALL OF CHURCH OF ST GILES AND RAILED ENCLOSURE

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District:: County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Goodrich
National Grid Reference:: SO 57201 19063

Details

SO 51 NE GOODRICH CP GOODRICH

6/38 Meyrick memorial approximately 6 m north-west of north wall of Church of St Giles and railed enclosure. GV II

Tomb slab in railed enclosure. c1837, restored c1941. Ashlar, wrought iron railings. Plain slab with inscription, spear head railings with lotus-heads to standards. Commemorates Llywelyn Meyrick LLE, FSA, only son of Samuel Meyrick of Goodrich Court KH, and also Samuel Rush Meyrick. The Meyricks were pioneer collectors of arms and armour. Samuel Rush Meyrick was the author of A Critical Inquiry into Ancient Armour (c1824) and was knighted by George IV for re-arranging the Armouries at the Tower of London and at Windsor. The Meyrick Society became a prestigious academic body and is well known as a small circle of "amateur d'armes". The monument was repaired in 1940 by members of the Meyrick Society of London to commemorate their 50th anniversary.

Listing NGR: SO5720619060

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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.