EARLE AND COLLINGWOODS TOMBS ABOUT 3 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST THOMAS

EARLE AND COLLINGWOODS TOMBS ABOUT 3 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST THOMAS, MARKET PLACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1231872
Date first listed:: 04-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:: EARLE AND COLLINGWOODS TOMBS ABOUT 3 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST THOMAS
Statutory Address:: EARLE AND COLLINGWOODS TOMBS ABOUT 3 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST THOMAS, MARKET PLACE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1231872
Date first listed:: 04-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:: EARLE AND COLLINGWOODS TOMBS ABOUT 3 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST THOMAS
Statutory Address 1:: EARLE AND COLLINGWOODS TOMBS ABOUT 3 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST THOMAS, MARKET PLACE

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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:: EARLE AND COLLINGWOODS TOMBS ABOUT 3 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST THOMAS, MARKET PLACE

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

District:: County Durham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Stanhope
National Grid Reference:: NY 99692 39213

Details

STANHOPE MARKET PLACE NY 9939 (North side) Stanhope

34/227 Earle and Collingwood tombs about 3 metres south of Church of St. Thomas GV II 2 headstones; commemorate 'Jan. wife of Jacob Earle' died 1770; and Jenning (?) and Sarah Collingwood, died 1797 and 1823, aged 24 and 23. Sandstone slabs, about one metre high. Earle headstone fine-grained with elaborately-shaped top; well-cut inscriptions with verses on each side, the reverse reading 'Tir'd with travelling thro'/this world of sin/At length am come to na/tures common Inn/In this dark place here/for to rest a night/In hopes to rise that Christ may give me light'.

Collingwood headstone has shaped top and tooled sides; inscription on reverse 'Mourn not my Friends/Because I died soon/And my Days Journey/Finished at Noon.

Listing NGR: NY9969239213

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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.