TOGHILL MONUMENT IN THE CHURCHYARD ABOUT 14 METRES SOUTH OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE GREAT

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1216136
Date first listed:: 15-Aug-1985
List Entry Name:: TOGHILL MONUMENT IN THE CHURCHYARD ABOUT 14 METRES SOUTH OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE GREAT
Statutory Address:: TOGHILL MONUMENT IN THE CHURCHYARD ABOUT 14 METRES SOUTH OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE GREAT

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Date:: 1999-11-02
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1216136
Date first listed:: 15-Aug-1985
List Entry Name:: TOGHILL MONUMENT IN THE CHURCHYARD ABOUT 14 METRES SOUTH OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE GREAT
Statutory Address 1:: TOGHILL MONUMENT IN THE CHURCHYARD ABOUT 14 METRES SOUTH OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE GREAT

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:: TOGHILL MONUMENT IN THE CHURCHYARD ABOUT 14 METRES SOUTH OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE GREAT

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

District:: South Gloucestershire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Wick and Abson
National Grid Reference:: ST 70523 74820

Details

ST 77 SW WICK AND ABSON C.P. ABSON

8/364 Toghill monument in the churchyard about 14 metres south of tower of G.V. Church of St. James the Great

II

Chest tomb. C18. Limestone. Flat top with moulded edge, moulded base, quarter balusters with moulded cornice, inscriptions north and south; to north, paired shaped panels with central cherub with wings, trumpet and hourglass to sides, egg and dart surround to panels, tuck-pointed lettering with verse in panel to left. To George Toghill, 1783 and other members of the family. One of a pair of monuments to the Toghill family, the other (q.v.) being 3 metres north.

Listing NGR: ST7052374820

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Legacy System number:: 401451
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.