ANONYMOUS CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 1.5 METRES SOUTH OF THE CHANCEL OF THE CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN

ANONYMOUS CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 1.5 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:: 1241418
Date first listed:: 24-Aug-1990
List Entry Name:: ANONYMOUS CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 1.5 METRES SOUTH OF THE CHANCEL OF THE CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN
Statutory Address:: ANONYMOUS CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 1.5 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:: 1241418
Date first listed:: 24-Aug-1990
List Entry Name:: ANONYMOUS CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 1.5 METRES SOUTH OF THE CHANCEL OF THE CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN
Statutory Address 1:: ANONYMOUS CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 1.5 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:: ANONYMOUS CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 1.5 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 55378 41436

Details

TQ 55 41 SPELDHURST SPELDHURST HILL (north side), SPELDHURST 12/553 Anonymous chest tomb approx 1.5m south of the chancel of the Church of St Mary the Virgin GV II

Chest tomb. Probably C17. Sandstone. Chest tomb is rectangular in plan with low walls of plain coursed sandstone. Thick soffit-chamfered flat lid. Any inscription has worn away.

Listing NGR: TQ5537841436

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Legacy System number:: 440473
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.