JOHNSTONE CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 3 METRES SOUTH OF THE CHANCEL OF THE CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN

JOHNSTONE CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 3 METRES SOUTH OF THE CHANCEL OF THE CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, SPELDHURST HILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1241416
Date first listed:: 24-Aug-1990
List Entry Name:: JOHNSTONE CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 3 METRES SOUTH OF THE CHANCEL OF THE CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN
Statutory Address:: JOHNSTONE CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 3 METRES SOUTH OF THE CHANCEL OF THE CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, SPELDHURST HILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1241416
Date first listed:: 24-Aug-1990
List Entry Name:: JOHNSTONE CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 3 METRES SOUTH OF THE CHANCEL OF THE CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN
Statutory Address 1:: JOHNSTONE CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 3 METRES SOUTH OF THE CHANCEL OF THE CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, SPELDHURST HILL

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:: JOHNSTONE CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 3 METRES SOUTH OF THE CHANCEL OF THE CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, SPELDHURST HILL

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

County:: Kent
District:: Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
Parish:: Speldhurst
National Grid Reference:: TQ 55381 41433

Details

TQ 55 41 SPELDHURST SPELDHURST HILL (north side), SPELDHURST 12/550 Johnstone chest tomb approx 3m south of the chancel of the Church of St Mary the Virgin GV II

Chest tomb. Dated 1776 in memory of the Reverend William Johnstone. Sandstone. Chest tomb is retangular in plan with a thick soffit-chamfered flat lid. Any plinth is now buried. Sides have fielded panels, 3 on the long sides and one each end. Inscriptions in Roman serif upper and lower case lettering with some italics. It is a touching memorial. The lid records the death of William Johnstone in 1776 and the east end panel records the sad deaths of 6 of his children in the same year. A John Archer and Hester Clutterbuck are also recorded but the dates of their deaths are illegible.

Listing NGR: TQ5538141433

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Legacy System number:: 440470
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.