A5, Monuments 121, 122, 123
A5, MONUMENTS 121, 122, 123, ABBEY PRECINCTS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245107
- Date first listed:
- 30-Oct-1997
- List Entry Name:
- A5, Monuments 121, 122, 123
- Statutory Address:
- A5, MONUMENTS 121, 122, 123, ABBEY PRECINCTS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245107
- Date first listed:
- 30-Oct-1997
- List Entry Name:
- A5, Monuments 121, 122, 123
- Statutory Address 1:
- A5, MONUMENTS 121, 122, 123, ABBEY PRECINCTS
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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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- A5, MONUMENTS 121, 122, 123, ABBEY PRECINCTS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- West Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bury St. Edmunds
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 85632 64006
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8564SE ABBEY PRECINCTS, Great Churchyard 639-1/16/30 A 5, MON: 121, 122, 123
GV II
A group of 3 churchyard monuments:- MON 121: Box tomb. 1755. JOHN CUMBERLAND, late of Norwich, 1755; also JOHN CUMBERLAND & REBECCA, his wife, 1781, and their 2 sons, JOHN, 1793 and SIMON, 1809. Also SAMUEL BUCK of Hawstead, 1852; ROBERT BUCK, 1860. Broken and badly repaired. MON 122: Box tomb. 1760. MR SAMUEL CUMBERLAND, 1760; MRS SARAH CUMBERLAND, his widow, 1768; ANN, wife of Thomas ROBINSON, 1781; JOHN CROSBIE, 1796; SARAH, his wife, 1787; JOHN CROSBIE, 1838; ANN, his widow, 1854; WILLIAM BUCK, 1838; JOHN BUCK, 1839; WILLIAM BUCK, 1818; SARAH, his wife, 1804. The Buck family were local maltsters and brewers. Broken, with a Coat of Arms on the top ledger. MON 123: Box tomb. Commemorates MARY, wife of Thomas ROBINSON, n.d.; THOMAS & ELIZABETH, their children, 1765; THOMAS ROBINSON, 1777; MARY, his widow, 1790; THOMAS ROBINSON, 1797; HENRY ROBINSON, 1815; MARY, wife of THOMAS, 1826; THOMAS ROBINSON, 1860; HENRY CRABB ROBINSON, 1867, diarist, (buried at HIGHGATE CEMETERY); ELIZABETH, wife of Habbakuk ROBINSON, 1803; THOMAS HENRY ROBINSON, 1841; CAROLINE ANNE, 1829; EMILY MARY, 1836; HENRY HUTCHINSON, 1856, who died at TORQUAY. Of local interest. (Survey of Monuments in the Great Churchyard c.1960: West Suffolk CC: SECTION 5).
Listing NGR: TL8563264006
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466495
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
West Suffolk County Council, , Survey of Monuments in the Great Churchyard c.1960, (), Section 5
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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