PENBERTHY TOMBS AND CROSS APPROXIMATELY 8 METRES WEST OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL

PENBERTHY TOMBS AND CROSS APPROXIMATELY 8 METRES WEST OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1196331
Date first listed:: 09-Feb-1994
List Entry Name:: PENBERTHY TOMBS AND CROSS APPROXIMATELY 8 METRES WEST OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
Statutory Address:: PENBERTHY TOMBS AND CROSS APPROXIMATELY 8 METRES WEST OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, CHURCH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1196331
Date first listed:: 09-Feb-1994
List Entry Name:: PENBERTHY TOMBS AND CROSS APPROXIMATELY 8 METRES WEST OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
Statutory Address 1:: PENBERTHY TOMBS AND CROSS APPROXIMATELY 8 METRES WEST OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, CHURCH 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:: PENBERTHY TOMBS AND CROSS APPROXIMATELY 8 METRES WEST OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, CHURCH STREET

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

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Helston
National Grid Reference:: SW6576127730

Details

HELSTON

SW6427 CHURCH STREET 631-1/4/47 (West side) Penberthy tombs and cross approx. 8 metres west of Church of St Michael

GV II

Cross set on pair of large chest tombs and headstone. Cross possibly pre-Conquest or medieval; headstone 1783 to Henry Penberthy, d.1783 aged 64; others probably mid C19. Dressed granite except for slate with incised inscription set into headstone with low-pitched head. 2 linked rectangular tombs. The cross is a wheelhead with a flared Greek cross in relief set over the monolithic side of the chest tomb which has incised inscription "PENBERTHY".

Listing NGR: SW6576127730

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Legacy System number:: 385398
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.