TWO MONUMENTS IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 2 METRES SOUTH SOUTH EAST OF SOUTH TRANSEPT, CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL

TWO MONUMENTS IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 2 METRES SOUTH SOUTH EAST OF SOUTH TRANSEPT, CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, WEST STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1188279
Date first listed:: 18-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:: TWO MONUMENTS IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 2 METRES SOUTH SOUTH EAST OF SOUTH TRANSEPT, CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL
Statutory Address:: TWO MONUMENTS IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 2 METRES SOUTH SOUTH EAST OF SOUTH TRANSEPT, CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, WEST STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1188279
Date first listed:: 18-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:: TWO MONUMENTS IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 2 METRES SOUTH SOUTH EAST OF SOUTH TRANSEPT, CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL
Statutory Address 1:: TWO MONUMENTS IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 2 METRES SOUTH SOUTH EAST OF SOUTH TRANSEPT, CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, WEST STREET

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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Location

Statutory Address:: TWO MONUMENTS IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 2 METRES SOUTH SOUTH EAST OF SOUTH TRANSEPT, CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, WEST STREET

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District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: South Petherton
National Grid Reference:: ST 43245 16847

Details

SOUTH PETHERTON CP WEST STREET (East side) ST4316

7/179 Two monuments in churchyard, about 2 metres south-south-east of south transept, Church of St Peter and St Paul

GV II

A chest tomb and a headstone. a) Horne chest tomb about 2 metres south-south-east of south transept. Early C17. Ham stone. Base buried; plain sides and flanks; chamfered coving to heavy flat top. Commemorates John Horne, died 1620. b) Headstone immediately south-east of a). Probably early C18. Ham stone, about 900mm x 800mm x ll0mm thick, chamfered back: triple scroll top of unusual type locally, forming a skull: two panels with arrowed centre drop, the panels having wide-shouldered semi-circular arched heads. Inscriptions very worn.

Listing NGR: ST4324616849

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Legacy System number:: 264264
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.