GROUP OF SIMPSON, WALKER AND KIPLING TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 6 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST MARY

GROUP OF SIMPSON, WALKER AND KIPLING TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 6 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST MARY, NEWGATE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1218303
Date first listed:: 29-Jan-1986
List Entry Name:: GROUP OF SIMPSON, WALKER AND KIPLING TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 6 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address:: GROUP OF SIMPSON, WALKER AND KIPLING TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 6 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST MARY, NEWGATE

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Date:: 2002-04-13
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1218303
Date first listed:: 29-Jan-1986
Date of most recent amendment:: 28-Nov-1994
List Entry Name:: GROUP OF SIMPSON, WALKER AND KIPLING TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 6 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address 1:: GROUP OF SIMPSON, WALKER AND KIPLING TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 6 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST MARY, NEWGATE

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 SIMPSON, WALKER AND KIPLING TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 6 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST MARY, NEWGATE

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

District:: County Durham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Barnard Castle
National Grid Reference:: NZ 05059 16264

Details

BARNARD CASTLE

NZ0516SW NEWGATE 770-1/6/161 (South side (off)) 29/01/86 Group of Simpson, Walker and Kipling tombs approx. 6m S of Church of St Mary (Formerly Listed as: NEWGATE (South side (off)) Simpson Tomb 6m south of Church of St Mary)

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Chest tomb with adjacent grave cover to south and 2 headstones to south-west. Ashlar. Chest: early C19, to Ann wife of Edward Simpson of ..odon Croft Lodge. Pulvinated Tuscan angle pilasters and moulded side slabs support top with moulded edges. Eroded inscriptions. Grave cover to south: c1830 to Capt. Robert Kipling, late of the 43rd Light Infantry Regiment, 1757-1830, and his wife Sarah d.1849. Small headstone: approx 0.4m high with serpentine top, inscribed `Here lieth the body of Robert, sone to Robt. and Isabell Walker...died August 22, 1741'. Taller headstone: approx 0.8m high, with shaped top. To An[n] daughter of Robert and Jane Kipling d.1772 aged 5, and Jane wife of Robert d.1747.

Listing NGR: NZ0505916264

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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.