SCATTERED GROUP OF 4 C18 HEADSTONES BETWEEN 6-18 METRES EAST OF THE CHANCEL OF THE CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN

SCATTERED GROUP OF 4 C18 HEADSTONES BETWEEN 6-18 METRES EAST 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:: 1241529
Date first listed:: 24-Aug-1990
List Entry Name:: SCATTERED GROUP OF 4 C18 HEADSTONES BETWEEN 6-18 METRES EAST OF THE CHANCEL OF THE CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN
Statutory Address:: SCATTERED GROUP OF 4 C18 HEADSTONES BETWEEN 6-18 METRES EAST 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:: 1241529
Date first listed:: 24-Aug-1990
List Entry Name:: SCATTERED GROUP OF 4 C18 HEADSTONES BETWEEN 6-18 METRES EAST OF THE CHANCEL OF THE CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN
Statutory Address 1:: SCATTERED GROUP OF 4 C18 HEADSTONES BETWEEN 6-18 METRES EAST 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.

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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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Statutory Address:: SCATTERED GROUP OF 4 C18 HEADSTONES BETWEEN 6-18 METRES EAST 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 55387 41448

Details

TQ 55 41 SPELDHURST SPELDHURST HILL (north side), SPELDHURST 12/580 Scattered group of 4 C18 headstones between 6-18m east of the chancel of the Church of St Mary the Virgin GV II

Group of 4 headstones. All are C18. All are upright sandstone slabs standing ebtween 300-600mm high. Nearest the church is the smallest with its head curving over a carved rosette. Inscription (as with the other 3) is in Roman serif upper and lower case lettering and records the death of William Camfield in 1767. There is another very similar in memory of Elizabeth Weller (died 1770). The third has a double curvilinear shaped head, each inscribed with crossed arrows, above a fielded panel. This one commemorates the death of John Richardson (date buried). The fourth has a shaped head inscribed with crossed arrows flanked by hearts. It records the death of Thomas Dine in 1763.

Listing NGR: TQ5538741448

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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.