Tablet in the Wall of the Vicarage Garden
TABLET IN THE WALL OF THE VICARAGE GARDEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1239232
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Tablet in the Wall of the Vicarage Garden
- Statutory Address:
- TABLET IN THE WALL OF THE VICARAGE GARDEN
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- Date:
- 1999-08-23
- Reference:
- IOE01/00302/26
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1239232
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Tablet in the Wall of the Vicarage Garden
- Statutory Address 1:
- TABLET IN THE WALL OF THE VICARAGE GARDEN
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- TABLET IN THE WALL OF THE VICARAGE GARDEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- West Sussex
- District:
- Chichester (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kirdford
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 01831 26633
Details
TQ 0126 KIRDFORD KIRDFORD VILLAGE
Tablet in the Wall of 20/576 the Vicarage Garden
GV II Memorial tablet. This tablet was erected in the south-west angle of the wall of the Vicarage Garden at the nearest point to the former Black Bear Inn in 1850 by the then Vicar of Kirdford, the Rev J F Cole, who found a slip of paper in the Vicarage Garden with these words on it:- "Degradation of drunkenness. There is no sin which doth more deface God's image than drunkenness. It disguiseth a person and doth even unman Him. Drunkenness makes him have the throat of a fish, the belly of a swine and the head of an ass. Drunkenness is the shame of nature, the extinguisher of reason, the shipwreck of charity and the murder of conscience. Drunkenness is hurtful to the body. The cup kills more than the cannon. It causes dropsies, cartarrhs, apoplexies. It fills the eye with fire, and the legs with water, and turns the body into a hospital."
Listing NGR: TQ0183026632
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 300565
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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