GROUP OF THREE CHEST TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 25 METRES NORTH OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL

GROUP OF THREE CHEST TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 25 METRES NORTH OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1207844
Date first listed:: 09-Feb-1994
List Entry Name:: GROUP OF THREE CHEST TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 25 METRES NORTH OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
Statutory Address:: GROUP OF THREE CHEST TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 25 METRES NORTH OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, CHURCH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1207844
Date first listed:: 09-Feb-1994
List Entry Name:: GROUP OF THREE CHEST TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 25 METRES NORTH OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
Statutory Address 1:: GROUP OF THREE CHEST TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 25 METRES NORTH 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:: GROUP OF THREE CHEST TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 25 METRES NORTH 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:: SW 65788 27765

Details

HELSTON

SW6427 CHURCH STREET 631-1/4/46 (West side) Group of 3 chest tombs approx. 25 metres north of Church of St Michael

GV II

Group of 3 chest tombs. Earliest tomb dated 1829 to Thomas Trevethan, d. aged 84; another to Catherine, wife of Thomas Phillips, d.1837 aged 27 and other one to Joseph Roberts, d.1830 aged 50. Dressed granite moulded monolithic sides plus low-pitched pedimented stelae at one end of each tomb. Each chest tomb is rectangular on plan. All have marble panels with recessed corners inset to east end; the Trevethan tomb has scrolled anthemion decoration.

Listing NGR: SW6578827765

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Legacy System number:: 385397
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.