A5, MONUMENTS 159, 159A, 161, 292, 294, 295, 319, 320

A5, MONUMENTS 159, 159A, 161, 292, 294, 295, 319, 320, ABBEY PRECINCTS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1245109
Date first listed:: 30-Oct-1997
List Entry Name:: A5, MONUMENTS 159, 159A, 161, 292, 294, 295, 319, 320
Statutory Address:: A5, MONUMENTS 159, 159A, 161, 292, 294, 295, 319, 320, ABBEY PRECINCTS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1245109
Date first listed:: 30-Oct-1997
List Entry Name:: A5, MONUMENTS 159, 159A, 161, 292, 294, 295, 319, 320
Statutory Address 1:: A5, MONUMENTS 159, 159A, 161, 292, 294, 295, 319, 320, ABBEY PRECINCTS

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:: A5, MONUMENTS 159, 159A, 161, 292, 294, 295, 319, 320, 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 85636 64014

Details

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SE ABBEY PRECINCTS, Great Churchyard 639-1/16/32 A 5, MON: 159. 159a, 161, 292, 294, 295, 319, 320

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A group of 8 churchyard monuments:- MON 159: Headstone. 1844. Ketton stone. To ROBERT, son of James & Mary Ann ELY. Palimpsest, mostly buried, reused in 1844. ON the west face of the stone is the original design, now upside down. In reusing it the mason reversed it and shaped the bottom edge to form a new top. The original inscription in a cartouche reads: "...Christopher (?) son of WILLIAM SMITH who departed this life ...of Feb. 1709 Aged.... Also four of their children". MON 159a: Memorial to THOMAS JACOB. Not included in schedule. MON 161: Coffin stone. 1831. Portland stone. MARIANNE, daughter of Thomas & Ann YOUNG, 1831; HENRY SHADOW YOUNG, 1846. MON 292: A coffin stone with rounded ends. 1847. AMELIA, wife of Henry LOCKWOOD. MON 294: Headstone. C18. Ketton stone. Design in bold relief with a bellied cartouche, skull, flowers and leaves. MON 295: A coffin stone with rounded ends. 1824. Ketton stone. MARY ANN, wife of John CAMBRIDGE, 1824; JOHN CAMBRIDGE, 1857. MON 319: Coffin stone with 2 inscribed footstones. 1821. THOMAS YOUNG, 1821; ANN YOUNG, 1826; T.Y. 1821; A.Y. 1826; T.Y. 1821; A.Y. 1826. MON 320: Coffin stone. 1818. Portland stone. ANN, wife of John CLEMENCE, 1818; JOHN CLEMENCE, 1850. (Survey of Monuments in the Great Churchyard c.1960: West Suffolk CC: SECTION 3).

Listing NGR: TL8563664014

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West Suffolk County Council, , Survey of Monuments in the Great Churchyard c.1960Section 3

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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.