Pair of chest tombs immediately south east of the Church of St Thomas of Canterbury

Church of St Thomas of Canterbury, Dinneford Street, Thorverton, EX5 5NU

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1240643
Date first listed:: 28-Aug-1987
List Entry Name:: Pair of chest tombs immediately south east of the Church of St Thomas of Canterbury
Statutory Address:: Church of St Thomas of Canterbury, Dinneford Street, Thorverton, EX5 5NU

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1240643
Date first listed:: 28-Aug-1987
List Entry Name:: Pair of chest tombs immediately south east of the Church of St Thomas of Canterbury
Statutory Address 1:: Church of St Thomas of Canterbury, Dinneford Street, Thorverton, EX5 5NU

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:: Church of St Thomas of Canterbury, Dinneford Street, Thorverton, EX5 5NU

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County:: Devon
District:: Mid Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Thorverton
National Grid Reference:: SS9248302178

Details

SS 90 SW 8/133

THORVERTON DINNEFORD STREET (west side) Pair of chest tombs immediately south east of the Church of St Thomas of Canterbury

GV II Pair of chest tombs. Late C19. Stone and marble. The southern tomb, commemorating James Duke Coleridge, d. 1857 is a rectangular stone slab with a cross, bible and chalice carved in high relief on the top and the inscription round the side. James Duke Coleridge, nephew of Samuel Taylor Coleridge was, like his brother Sir John Taylor Coleridge of Ottery St Mary and other members of the family, one of the key figures in the ecclesiological and Gothic revival in Devon.

The northern tomb is a coped marble chest tomb in the medieval Gothic style with a foliated cross carved on the top. The inscription on the sides commemorates Philip Freeman, Archdeacon of Exeter and vicar of Thorverton, died 1875. Archdeacon Freeman, antiquarian and author, wrote a history of Exeter Cathedral and was one of the first scholars to fully utilize the Cathedral Fabric Rolls.

Listing NGR: SS9248302178

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Legacy System number:: 439081
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.