GROUP OF 3 CHEST TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 5 METRES TO SOUTH OF NAVE OF DORCHESTER ABBEY

GROUP OF 3 CHEST TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 5 METRES TO SOUTH OF NAVE OF DORCHESTER ABBEY, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1193627
Date first listed:: 14-May-1986
List Entry Name:: GROUP OF 3 CHEST TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 5 METRES TO SOUTH OF NAVE OF DORCHESTER ABBEY
Statutory Address:: GROUP OF 3 CHEST TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 5 METRES TO SOUTH OF NAVE OF DORCHESTER ABBEY, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1193627
Date first listed:: 14-May-1986
List Entry Name:: GROUP OF 3 CHEST TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 5 METRES TO SOUTH OF NAVE OF DORCHESTER ABBEY
Statutory Address 1:: GROUP OF 3 CHEST TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 5 METRES TO SOUTH OF NAVE OF DORCHESTER ABBEY, HIGH 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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Location

Statutory Address:: GROUP OF 3 CHEST TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 5 METRES TO SOUTH OF NAVE OF DORCHESTER ABBEY, HIGH STREET

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County:: Oxfordshire
District:: South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Dorchester
National Grid Reference:: SU 57915 94184

Details

DORCHESTER HIGH STREET SU5794 (East side) 5/47 Group of 3 chest tombs approx. 5m. to S of nave of Dorchester Abbey

GV II

3 chest tombs. One dated 1634 and two mid/late C18. Limestone. Pair nearest church have moulded plinths and covers, with fielded panels to the sides and ends. The westernmost also has a shield-shaped end panel commemorating Edward Wise, died 17(?). The earlier tomb has a deeply-projecting cover; chamfered on the underside, and the sides and one end have moulded recessed panels, with inset trefoiled arches and sunken spandrels. Rectangular inscription panel on end commemorates John Wise of Drayton (died 1634).

Listing NGR: SU5791394186

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Legacy System number:: 248076
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.