CURRAH TOMB ABOUT 4 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST JOHN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1232081
Date first listed:: 05-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:: CURRAH TOMB ABOUT 4 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST JOHN
Statutory Address:: CURRAH TOMB ABOUT 4 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST JOHN

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1232081
Date first listed:: 05-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:: CURRAH TOMB ABOUT 4 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST JOHN
Statutory Address 1:: CURRAH TOMB ABOUT 4 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST JOHN

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:: CURRAH TOMB ABOUT 4 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST JOHN

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District:: County Durham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Stanhope
National Grid Reference:: NY 88553 37929

Details

STANHOPE ST. JOHN'S CHAPEL NY 8837 38/260 Currah tomb about 4 metres south of Church of St. John GV II Headstone. Circa 1789, commemorating William Currah. Sandstone slab about one metre high, with intricately-curved top. Inscribed 'Here the dear Darling of mine Eye/In Mould beneath this Stone doth lye/Not Youth nor Innocence could save/ His Body from the (eroded) Grave/But his triumphant Soul is gone/To Heav'n with Christ to worship (?) God.

Listing NGR: NY8855337929

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Legacy System number:: 407403
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.