GAYLARD MONUMENT IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 2 METRES EAST OF CHANCEL, CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1241892
Date first listed:: 27-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:: GAYLARD MONUMENT IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 2 METRES EAST OF CHANCEL, CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN
Statutory Address:: GAYLARD MONUMENT IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 2 METRES EAST OF CHANCEL, CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN

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Date:: 2001-06-30
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1241892
Date first listed:: 27-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:: GAYLARD MONUMENT IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 2 METRES EAST OF CHANCEL, CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN
Statutory Address 1:: GAYLARD MONUMENT IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 2 METRES 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:: GAYLARD MONUMENT IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 2 METRES 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 48407 17271

Details

ST4817 STOKE SUB HAMDON CP EAST STOKE (South side) 7/295 Gaylard monument in churchyard, about 2 metres east of chancel, Church of St. Mary the Virgin GV II Headstone. C18. Ham stone slab, about 1.05 metre wide and 1.65m high, chamfered back: twisted vine frame, with centre drop for nearly half the height of the panel; top almost flat, but includes two semi-circular arches with angels and trumpets, a waving figure in panel between, with skull in scroll panel to left and hourglass to right. Commemorates Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Gaylard, died 1737 and others. One of the largest stones in a varied churchyard, and one of the best preserved; the lettering end carving well illustrate the skills of the masons of the nearby Ham stone quarry.

Listing NGR: ST4840717271

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Legacy System number:: 441137
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.