Pedestal Tomb of Sarah Mellor and Others

PEDESTAL TOMB OF SARAH MELLOR AND OTHERS

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1236443
Date first listed:
09-Dec-1983
List Entry Name:
Pedestal Tomb of Sarah Mellor and Others
Statutory Address:
PEDESTAL TOMB OF SARAH MELLOR AND OTHERS

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1236443
Date first listed:
09-Dec-1983
List Entry Name:
Pedestal Tomb of Sarah Mellor and Others
Statutory Address 1:
PEDESTAL TOMB OF SARAH MELLOR AND OTHERS

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

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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Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
PEDESTAL TOMB OF SARAH MELLOR AND OTHERS

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

District:
Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Rainow
National Grid Reference:
SJ9462776347

Details

SJ 97 NW
2/123

RAINOW C.P.
HOUGH HOLE (North Side)
Pedestal tomb of Sarah Mellor and others

GV
II
Pedestal tomb of Sarah Mellor and others: earliest dated 1841.
Square sandstone block on moulded plinth with inscribed recessed
moulded panels. Projecting weathered capstone surmounted by plain
obelisk.

Central one of the 3 pedestal tombs, prominent in the garden.


Listing NGR: SJ 94627 76347

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
427429
Legacy System:
LBS

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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 6 Cheshire,

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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