GROUP OF 2 HEADSTONES APPROXIMATELY 4 METRES SOUTH EAST OF CHANCEL OF CHURCH OF ST MARY

GROUP OF 2 HEADSTONES APPROXIMATELY 4 METRES SOUTH EAST OF CHANCEL OF CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1225458
Date first listed:: 26-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:: GROUP OF 2 HEADSTONES APPROXIMATELY 4 METRES SOUTH EAST OF CHANCEL OF CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address:: GROUP OF 2 HEADSTONES APPROXIMATELY 4 METRES SOUTH EAST OF CHANCEL OF CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1225458
Date first listed:: 26-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:: GROUP OF 2 HEADSTONES APPROXIMATELY 4 METRES SOUTH EAST OF CHANCEL OF CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address 1:: GROUP OF 2 HEADSTONES APPROXIMATELY 4 METRES SOUTH EAST OF CHANCEL OF CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH LANE

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 2 HEADSTONES APPROXIMATELY 4 METRES SOUTH EAST OF CHANCEL OF CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH LANE

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

County:: Oxfordshire
District:: Cherwell (District Authority)
Parish:: Lower Heyford
National Grid Reference:: SP 48533 24868

Details

LOWER HEYFORD CHURCH LANE SP4824 (North side) 10/47 Group of 2 headstones approx. 4m SE of chancel of Church of St. Mary GV II

2 headstones. c.1694 and c.1700. Marlstone. Baroque style. The earlier stone, to right has an arched scrolled head with a pair of winged cherub's heads supporting swags and festoons; the inscription, which is flanked by female weepers, is now largely illegible but includes the date 1694. The other stone is slightly larger and has an oval cartouche surrounded by cherubs and drapery, with a smaller cartouche in the head; the inscription is illegible. The carving, particularly of the earlier stone, is unusually vigorous and accomplished.

Listing NGR: SP4853324868

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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.