SMITH TOMB APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES SOUTH EAST OF CHURCH OF ST MARY

SMITH TOMB APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES SOUTH EAST OF CHURCH OF ST MARY, NEWGATE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1218314
Date first listed:: 28-Nov-1994
List Entry Name:: SMITH TOMB APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES SOUTH EAST OF CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address:: SMITH TOMB APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES SOUTH EAST OF CHURCH OF ST MARY, NEWGATE

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Date:: 2001-06-30
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1218314
Date first listed:: 28-Nov-1994
List Entry Name:: SMITH TOMB APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES SOUTH EAST OF CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address 1:: SMITH TOMB APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES SOUTH EAST 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:: SMITH TOMB APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES SOUTH EAST 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 05114 16254

Details

BARNARD CASTLE

NZ0516SW NEWGATE 770-1/6/163 (South side (off)) Smith tomb approximately 20 metres south-east of Church of St Mary

GV II

Chest tomb to John Smith approx 20m south-east of east end of church. c1844. Sandstone ashlar. Tuscan angle pilasters with necking support slightly rounded top with rounded edges and frame recessed side slabs. Inscription on south commemorates John Smith of Middleham, `the highly esteemed training groom of the late Lords Strathmore and Queensberry, the late Duke of Cleveland and the present Earl Glasgow.' Died April 12th 1844, aged 75.

Listing NGR: NZ0511416254

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Legacy System number:: 388792
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.