CHEST TOMB AND 2 HEADSTONES ABOUT 1 METRE SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST MARY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1217366
Date first listed:: 16-Feb-1989
List Entry Name:: CHEST TOMB AND 2 HEADSTONES ABOUT 1 METRE SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address:: CHEST TOMB AND 2 HEADSTONES ABOUT 1 METRE SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST MARY

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1217366
Date first listed:: 16-Feb-1989
List Entry Name:: CHEST TOMB AND 2 HEADSTONES ABOUT 1 METRE SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address 1:: CHEST TOMB AND 2 HEADSTONES ABOUT 1 METRE SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST MARY

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:: CHEST TOMB AND 2 HEADSTONES ABOUT 1 METRE SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST MARY

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

County:: Kent
District:: Ashford (District Authority)
Parish:: Wye with Hinxhill
National Grid Reference:: TR 04870 42614

Details

TR 04 SW WYE HINXHILL

3/270 Chest tomb and 2 headstones about 1 metre south of Church of St Mary

GV II

Chest tomb and 2 headstones. Chest tomb to George Wightwick and family (d.1749). Stone, plain chest with pilaster side piers to moulded top slab, and simple inscription pieces. Edward Andrews (headstone), d.l754. About 2½ feet high with ornate head piece scrolled with winged hourglass and garlanded skull and bones. Christopher Flury, d.1714. Headstone, about 2½ feet high, with floriate scrolled shoulders and motifs of hourglass and crown over serpent (?)

Listing NGR: TR0543142993

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Legacy System number:: 411821
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.