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GROUP OF 6 CHEST TOMBS AND 4 MONUMENTS APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES EAST OF CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY

GROUP OF 6 CHEST TOMBS AND 4 MONUMENTS APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES EAST OF CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY, BASWICH LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1195370
Date first listed:: 16-Feb-1994
List Entry Name:: GROUP OF 6 CHEST TOMBS AND 4 MONUMENTS APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES EAST OF CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY
Statutory Address:: GROUP OF 6 CHEST TOMBS AND 4 MONUMENTS APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES EAST OF CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY, BASWICH LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1195370
Date first listed:: 16-Feb-1994
List Entry Name:: GROUP OF 6 CHEST TOMBS AND 4 MONUMENTS APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES EAST OF CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY
Statutory Address 1:: GROUP OF 6 CHEST TOMBS AND 4 MONUMENTS APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES EAST OF CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY, BASWICH LANE

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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Statutory Address:: GROUP OF 6 CHEST TOMBS AND 4 MONUMENTS APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES EAST OF CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY, BASWICH LANE

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

County:: Staffordshire
District:: Stafford (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SJ9441122288

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STAFFORD

SJ92SW 590-1/2/106

BASWICH LANE, Baswich (West side) Group of 6 chest tombs & 4 monuments approx. 20m east of Church of Holy Trinity

GV II

Group of 6 chest tombs and 4 monuments in 4 rows. Limestone and slate. Row nearest church consists of 2 monuments flanking chest tomb: monument to Matthew Price, d.1835, square monument on moulded plinth with wide cornice with large urn, part missing; square panels with concave corners. Chest tomb, late C18, illegible, square angle balusters and 2 panels to each long side, bowed west end with fielded panel, cornice. Monument to members of the Seckerson family, d.1818-39 and 1877, stepped plinth on wide platform with spear-headed railings remaining to north, top entablature with missing finial; slate panels with concave corners, extra square panel to west side. 2nd row consists of 4 chest tombs: Chest tomb, early C19, square angle balusters and fielded panels, pyramidal cap; worn inscription. Chest tomb to John Lycett, and Catharine Box, d.1810, fluted angle balusters and fielded panels with concave angles. Low chest tomb to Mary Greenwood, d.1805, slab with moulded edges. Chest tomb to members of the Jackson family, d.1787-1817 and later, fluted angle balusters, oval and round panels; west end has 4 lines of verse. 3rd row consists of 2 monuments: monument to Rev. Thomas Greenwood, d.1829, plain plinth in railings with decorative heads, fielded panels and top entablature with broken-off urn, the pieces of which remain. Monument to William Payne, d.1839, plain plinth, recessed angles and entablature with remains of urn; fielded panels. 4th row consists of chest tomb to R Hazeldine, d.1861, which is not of special architectural interest.

Listing NGR: SJ9441122288

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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.