UNIDENTIFIED HEADSTONE, IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 19 1/2 METRES SOUTH OF EAST END OF NAVE, CHURCH OF ST ETHELBERT

UNIDENTIFIED HEADSTONE, IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 19 1/2 METRES SOUTH OF EAST END OF NAVE, CHURCH OF ST ETHELBERT, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1186490
Date first listed:: 04-Jul-1985
List Entry Name:: UNIDENTIFIED HEADSTONE, IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 19 1/2 METRES SOUTH OF EAST END OF NAVE, CHURCH OF ST ETHELBERT
Statutory Address:: UNIDENTIFIED HEADSTONE, IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 19 1/2 METRES SOUTH OF EAST END OF NAVE, CHURCH OF ST ETHELBERT, CHURCH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1186490
Date first listed:: 04-Jul-1985
List Entry Name:: UNIDENTIFIED HEADSTONE, IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 19 1/2 METRES SOUTH OF EAST END OF NAVE, CHURCH OF ST ETHELBERT
Statutory Address 1:: UNIDENTIFIED HEADSTONE, IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 19 1/2 METRES SOUTH OF EAST END OF NAVE, CHURCH OF ST ETHELBERT, 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: UNIDENTIFIED HEADSTONE, IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 19 1/2 METRES SOUTH OF EAST END OF NAVE, CHURCH OF ST ETHELBERT, CHURCH STREET

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

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Forest of Dean (District Authority)
Parish:: Littledean
National Grid Reference:: SO 67217 13552

Details

SO 61 SE LITTLEDEAN CHURCH STREET (east side)

10/91 Unidentified headstone, in church- yard, about 19.5m south of east end of nave, Church of St. Ethelbert

GV II

Unidentified very large headstone; probably about 1800; stone. About 2.3m high, 120mm thick. Shaped top slightly thicker than main part; rounded shoulders, followed by slight step to sweep up to short, central flat. Beaded edge to bottom of top section: main body beaded on corners and divided into thirds vertically on both sides with beading. On west face an inset panel with cambered head and beaded edge has high relief carving of child in contemporary dress, with leaf scrolls back and front. Carving good; inscriptions largely weathered off, but text 'Suffer little children to come unto me.....' still partly legible around top. Forms part of close group with Wooley and Wood, monuments, (q.v.). (D. Verey, Gloucestershire: The Vale and Forest of Dean, 1970).

Listing NGR: SO6721713552

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Legacy System number:: 354165
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Verey, D , The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 2 The Vale and The Forest of Dean, (1970)

Legal

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