The Gibbet Stone
THE GIBBET STONE, LONDON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240884
- Date first listed:
- 09-Mar-1960
- List Entry Name:
- The Gibbet Stone
- Statutory Address:
- THE GIBBET STONE, LONDON ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240884
- Date first listed:
- 09-Mar-1960
- List Entry Name:
- The Gibbet Stone
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE GIBBET STONE, LONDON ROAD
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:
- THE GIBBET STONE, LONDON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Waverley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Thursley
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 89778 35780
Details
SU 83NE THURSLEY C.P. LONDON ROAD Hindhead
7/212 The Gibbet Stone 9/3/60 II
Memorial Stone. Erected in 1787 by James Stillwell of Cosford House and renovated in 1889 by his descendant James John Russell. Sandstone, and shaped like a grave- stone, approximately 3 feet high by 2 feet wide. It commemorates the murder of an unknown sailor on September 24, 1786 by three other sailors - Edward Lonegan, Michael Casey and James Marshall, who were apprehended the same day and hanged in chains on the site of the murder on the 7th April, 1787. The inscription on the back was recut in the C19. The stone has been moved a number of times but is back on its original site, by the side of the Old Portsmouth Road which in 1786 ran over the top of Gibbet Hill.
PEVSNER: BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND, SURREY (1971) p.485.
Listing NGR: SU8977835780
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 439319
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I Rev. by Cherry, The Buildings of England: Surrey, (1971)
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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