ROW OF 7 HEADSTONES AND 4 FOOTSTONES FROM APPROXIMATELY 17 TO APPROXIMATELY 25 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST GILES

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1188475
Date first listed:: 24-Aug-1990
List Entry Name:: ROW OF 7 HEADSTONES AND 4 FOOTSTONES FROM APPROXIMATELY 17 TO APPROXIMATELY 25 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST GILES
Statutory Address:: ROW OF 7 HEADSTONES AND 4 FOOTSTONES FROM APPROXIMATELY 17 TO APPROXIMATELY 25 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST GILES

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1188475
Date first listed:: 24-Aug-1990
List Entry Name:: ROW OF 7 HEADSTONES AND 4 FOOTSTONES FROM APPROXIMATELY 17 TO APPROXIMATELY 25 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST GILES
Statutory Address 1:: ROW OF 7 HEADSTONES AND 4 FOOTSTONES FROM APPROXIMATELY 17 TO APPROXIMATELY 25 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST GILES

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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:: ROW OF 7 HEADSTONES AND 4 FOOTSTONES FROM APPROXIMATELY 17 TO APPROXIMATELY 25 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST GILES

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County:: Surrey
District:: Mole Valley (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 19293 57970

Details

ASHTEAD ASHTEAD PARK TQ 1857-1957 8/19 Row of 7 headstones and 4 footstones from approx. 17 to approx. 25 metres south of Church of St Giles GV II

Row of 7 monumental headstones on north-south line (interrupted between the 1st and 2nd). Mostly mid C18. All of limestone. Commemorating (from left to right): (1) Mary Bovey (d.1746 [?]): shaped top, carved skull-and-cross-bones; (2) John Syms (d.1787): shaped top with fan, two 4-line verses of doggerel; (3) Alice Syms (d.1785): similar to (2), including verses; footstone to rear inscribed "AS 1785"; (4) John Symes (d.1738): crude segmental pediment with consoles, carved skull; matching footstone to rear inscribed "JS 1738" (5) Benjamin Symes (d.1742, aged 27): similar to (4) but with more emphatic design, and couplet "Young men of strength behold and see Just in my prime Death conquered me"; matching footstone to rear insribed "BS 1742"; (6) Phebe Symes (d.1755): large stone, elaborately shaped top with scrolls, skull- and-cross-bones; (7) Mrs Mary Hunt (d.1747): similar to (6); footstone to rear inscribed "MH 1747".

Listing NGR: TQ1929357970

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Legacy System number:: 290402
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.