ROCK CUT TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 4 METRES SOUTH EAST OF CHAPEL OF ST PATRICK

ROCK CUT TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 4 METRES SOUTH EAST OF CHAPEL OF ST PATRICK, MAIN STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1207215
Date first listed:: 06-Apr-1979
List Entry Name:: ROCK CUT TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 4 METRES SOUTH EAST OF CHAPEL OF ST PATRICK
Statutory Address:: ROCK CUT TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 4 METRES SOUTH EAST OF CHAPEL OF ST PATRICK, MAIN STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1207215
Date first listed:: 06-Apr-1979
Date of most recent amendment:: 20-Jan-1993
List Entry Name:: ROCK CUT TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 4 METRES SOUTH EAST OF CHAPEL OF ST PATRICK
Statutory Address 1:: ROCK CUT TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 4 METRES SOUTH EAST OF CHAPEL OF ST PATRICK, MAIN 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:: ROCK CUT TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 4 METRES SOUTH EAST OF CHAPEL OF ST PATRICK, MAIN STREET

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

County:: Lancashire
District:: Lancaster (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SD 40998 61649

Details

MORECAMBE AND HEYSHAM

SD4061 MAIN STREET, Heysham 939-1/7/18 (West side (off)) 06/04/79 Rock-cut tombs approx 4m SE of Chapel of St Patrick (Formerly Listed as: MAIN STREET, Heysham (West side (off)) Rock-cut tombs around St Patrick's Chapel)

GV I

Two graves. Pre-Conquest. cut into the sandstone rock close to St Patrick's Chapel (qv). One is child-sized. Both have socket-holes probably intended for timber crosses. An associated cemetery to the south of the chapel was excavated in the 1970s and bones were dated to the 10th and 11th centuries. Forms part of a Scheduled Ancient Monument.

Listing NGR: SD4099961649

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Legacy System number:: 391834
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.