GROUP OF 4 MONUMENTS IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 9 METRES NORTH NORTH EAST OF CHANCEL, CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1241888
Date first listed:: 27-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:: GROUP OF 4 MONUMENTS IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 9 METRES NORTH NORTH EAST OF CHANCEL, CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN
Statutory Address:: GROUP OF 4 MONUMENTS IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 9 METRES NORTH NORTH EAST OF CHANCEL, CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1241888
Date first listed:: 27-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:: GROUP OF 4 MONUMENTS IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 9 METRES NORTH NORTH EAST OF CHANCEL, CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN
Statutory Address 1:: GROUP OF 4 MONUMENTS IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 9 METRES NORTH NORTH EAST OF CHANCEL, CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN

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:: GROUP OF 4 MONUMENTS IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 9 METRES NORTH NORTH EAST OF CHANCEL, CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN

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District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Stoke sub Hamdon
National Grid Reference:: ST 48412 17286

Details

ST4817 STOKE SUB HAMDON CP EAST STOKE (South side) 7/291 Group of 4 monuments in churchyard, about 9 metres north-north east of chancel, Church of St. Mary the Virgin - GV II Four headstones. C18 and C19, Reading from north to south: (a) Chaffey monument: Headstone, C18, Ham stone, about 650mm wide x 850mm high, about 10mm thick with chamfered back; flat top, plain wave-mould frame: Commemorates Anne, daughter of Robert and Elizabeth Chaffey, died 1723. (b) Chaffey monument: Headstone, rig. Ham stone, about 650mm wide x 850mm high, about 100mm thick with chamfered back; shouldered semi-circular top framing angel flanked by scrolls, foliated frame. Commemorates John, son of John and Elizabeth Chaffey, died 1723. (c) Richardson monument: Headstone,C18, Ham stone, about 750mm wide x one metre high, about 100mm thick with chamfered back; roughly semi-circular top enclosing 2 semi-circular panels with angel-heads and fan shape between, foliated frame to single panel: Commemorates William Richardson, died 1761, and Dinah his wife, died 1769. (d) Murey Monument: Headstone, Cl9. Ham stone, about 950mm wide x 1.4 metre high, about 100mm thick with chamfered back; shouldered seai-circular top, with Adamesque urn and foliage; two plain panels with reverse curve top corners. Commemorates Silas Murey, died 1833, and Dinah his wife, died 1806, with others.

Listing NGR: ST4841217286

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Legacy System number:: 441133
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.