ROW OF 5 JEFFERY HEADSTONES APPROXIMATELY 9 METRES SOUTH OF THE TOWER OF THE CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN

ROW OF 5 JEFFERY HEADSTONES APPROXIMATELY 9 METRES SOUTH OF THE TOWER OF THE CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, SPELDHURST HILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1241524
Date first listed:: 24-Aug-1990
List Entry Name:: ROW OF 5 JEFFERY HEADSTONES APPROXIMATELY 9 METRES SOUTH OF THE TOWER OF THE CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN
Statutory Address:: ROW OF 5 JEFFERY HEADSTONES APPROXIMATELY 9 METRES SOUTH OF THE TOWER 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:: 1241524
Date first listed:: 24-Aug-1990
List Entry Name:: ROW OF 5 JEFFERY HEADSTONES APPROXIMATELY 9 METRES SOUTH OF THE TOWER OF THE CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN
Statutory Address 1:: ROW OF 5 JEFFERY HEADSTONES APPROXIMATELY 9 METRES SOUTH OF THE TOWER 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:: ROW OF 5 JEFFERY HEADSTONES APPROXIMATELY 9 METRES SOUTH OF THE TOWER 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 55347 41403

Details

TQ 55 41 SPELDHURST SPELDHURST HILL (north side), SPELDHURST 12/570 Row of 5 Jeffery headstones approx 9m south of the tower of the Church of St Mary the Virgin GV II

Row of 5 headstones. All are C18 in memory of members of the Jeffery family. All are upright sandstone slabs standing ebtween 450-600mm high. All have shaped heads. The left end one is relatively plain. The right 3 have carved heads and the right 4 have fielded panels. All are inscribed in Roman serif upper and lower case lettering. From left to right they commemorate the deaths of Robert Jeffery (died 1770), Elizabeth (died 1748), Richard (date illegible), Sarah (date buried) and Richard (date buried).

Listing NGR: TQ5534741403

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Legacy System number:: 440618
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.