JORDAN MEMORIAL, IN THE CHURCHYARD 2 METRES WEST OF PORCH OF CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1186315
Date first listed:: 24-Sep-1984
List Entry Name:: JORDAN MEMORIAL, IN THE CHURCHYARD 2 METRES WEST OF PORCH OF CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN
Statutory Address:: JORDAN MEMORIAL, IN THE CHURCHYARD 2 METRES WEST OF PORCH OF CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1186315
Date first listed:: 24-Sep-1984
List Entry Name:: JORDAN MEMORIAL, IN THE CHURCHYARD 2 METRES WEST OF PORCH OF CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN
Statutory Address 1:: JORDAN MEMORIAL, IN THE CHURCHYARD 2 METRES WEST OF PORCH OF CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN

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:: JORDAN MEMORIAL, IN THE CHURCHYARD 2 METRES WEST OF PORCH OF CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN

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

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Forest of Dean (District Authority)
Parish:: English Bicknor
National Grid Reference:: SO 58124 15802

Details

SO 51 NE ENGLISH BICKNOR ENGLISH BICKNOR

1/36 Jordan memorial, in the churchyard 2 metres W. of porch of Church of St. Mary the Virgin

II

Chest tomb, late C17/early C18. Sandstone. Flat top with moulded capping. Cartouche at east end with coat of arms, and at west with inscription (indecipherable). On long sides upturned semi- circular panels with inscriptions and carved foliage surround with cherub heads. Fluted lyre ends. Commemorates Anne Jordan d.1691 and her elder sister also Anne Jordan d.1708. Earliest decipherable inscription in churchyard. "And Also Anne, ye Wife of John Lib Lamb Gent/Daughr of John Jordan by Eliz his Wife was/Born March ye 16t 1695 & Buried Oct ye 25t 1708". "Anne ye Daughr of John Jordan by Eliz/his Wife was Born/April ye 18t 1690 &/Buried ye 25t of May/Following". One corner of top missing at time of survey (5/6/84)

Listing NGR: SO5812415802

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Legacy System number:: 353728
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.