ROW OF 4 HEADSTONES ADJOINING CHURCHYARD CROSS TO SOUTH IN CHURCHYARD OF DORCHESTER ABBEY

ROW OF 4 HEADSTONES ADJOINING CHURCHYARD CROSS TO SOUTH IN CHURCHYARD OF DORCHESTER ABBEY, HIGH STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1193635
Date first listed:: 14-May-1986
List Entry Name:: ROW OF 4 HEADSTONES ADJOINING CHURCHYARD CROSS TO SOUTH IN CHURCHYARD OF DORCHESTER ABBEY
Statutory Address:: ROW OF 4 HEADSTONES ADJOINING CHURCHYARD CROSS TO SOUTH IN CHURCHYARD OF DORCHESTER ABBEY, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1193635
Date first listed:: 14-May-1986
List Entry Name:: ROW OF 4 HEADSTONES ADJOINING CHURCHYARD CROSS TO SOUTH IN CHURCHYARD OF DORCHESTER ABBEY
Statutory Address 1:: ROW OF 4 HEADSTONES ADJOINING CHURCHYARD CROSS TO SOUTH IN CHURCHYARD 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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: ROW OF 4 HEADSTONES ADJOINING CHURCHYARD CROSS TO SOUTH IN CHURCHYARD OF DORCHESTER ABBEY, HIGH STREET

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

County:: Oxfordshire
District:: South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Dorchester
National Grid Reference:: SU 57894 94182

Details

DORCHESTER HIGH STREET SU5794 (East side) 5/49 Row of 4 headstones adjoining churchyard cross to S in churchyard of Dorchester Abbey

GV II

4 headstones. Late C17. Limestone. Outer stones have undulating heads and oval inscription panels. Inner pair have segmental heads with scrolled ends. Dated, from left to right, 1676, 1695, 1697 and 1699.

Listing NGR: SU5789494182

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 248078
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

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