MAIN CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 18 METRES SOUTH OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL

MAIN CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 18 METRES SOUTH OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, CHURCH HILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1204736
Date first listed:: 10-Feb-1987
List Entry Name:: MAIN CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 18 METRES SOUTH OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
Statutory Address:: MAIN CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 18 METRES SOUTH OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, CHURCH HILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1204736
Date first listed:: 10-Feb-1987
List Entry Name:: MAIN CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 18 METRES SOUTH OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
Statutory Address 1:: MAIN CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 18 METRES SOUTH OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, CHURCH HILL

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:: MAIN CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 18 METRES SOUTH OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, CHURCH HILL

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

County:: Devon
District:: East Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Otterton
National Grid Reference:: SY 08018 85126

Details

OTTERTON CHURCH HILL, Otterton SY 0885 7/140 Main chest tomb approximately - 18 metres south of tower of Church of St Michael GV II Chest tomb. Dated 1770 in memory of John and Agnes Main. Limestone ashlar. Chest tomb with flat lid moulded around the edges and standing on a moulded plinth. Each of the long sides has 2 panels separated by a fluted flat pilaster and similar clasping pilasters on each corner. Both the northern panels are inscribed with Roman serif upper and lower case lettering. The left one records the deaths of John and Agnes Main in 1763 and 1770 respectively. The right-hand panel records the deaths of other members of the family in the late C18 and early C19.

Listing NGR: SY0801885126

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Legacy System number:: 86341
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.