WALL WITH RESET TOMBSTONES ON SOUTH SIDE OF CHURCHYARD

WALL WITH RESET TOMBSTONES ON SOUTH SIDE OF CHURCHYARD, SAINT MARY'S CHURCHYARD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1196241
Date first listed:: 31-Oct-1994
List Entry Name:: WALL WITH RESET TOMBSTONES ON SOUTH SIDE OF CHURCHYARD
Statutory Address:: WALL WITH RESET TOMBSTONES ON SOUTH SIDE OF CHURCHYARD, SAINT MARY'S CHURCHYARD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1196241
Date first listed:: 31-Oct-1994
List Entry Name:: WALL WITH RESET TOMBSTONES ON SOUTH SIDE OF CHURCHYARD
Statutory Address 1:: WALL WITH RESET TOMBSTONES ON SOUTH SIDE OF CHURCHYARD, SAINT MARY'S CHURCHYARD

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:: WALL WITH RESET TOMBSTONES ON SOUTH SIDE OF CHURCHYARD, SAINT MARY'S CHURCHYARD

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

County:: Essex
District:: Uttlesford (District Authority)
Parish:: Saffron Walden
National Grid Reference:: TL 53695 38563

Details

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 SAINT MARY'S CHURCHYARD 669-1/1/404 Wall with reset tombstones on south side of churchyard

GV II

Wall with reset tombstones. c1800. Red brick. 125m long with way through from Church Lane 50m from W end, approx 2m high. Flemish bond with battered and dentilled coping, rounded top in brick. E section rises from Church Lane in 3 steps following the slope of the ground. Some sections repaired with no upper decoration. Tombstones reset against N churchyard side in both sections, those E of Church Lane are best preserved including one to Jonathan Parker,`ingenious needy artisn' 1764, showing craftsmens tools and recorded restoration in 1931. Also 3 tombstones similar to each other, John Liverett, 1783, Robert Liverett, 1801 and Thomas Gardner, 1802, winged cherub head supported by lunate reeded band and set within similarly decorated rectangular frame, surmounting crescentic decoration of foliage. Several tombstones now illegible but of C18 type with cherubs' heads, foliage and volutes, one to William Winstanley, 1750 with a skull and steeply inclined volutes. W end tombstones are more weathered but include John Waite, 1768, with cherubs and scrolls and Elizabeth Erswell, 1826.

Listing NGR: TL5369538563

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Legacy System number:: 370723
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.