2 COMYNS CHEST TOMBS ABUT 15 METRES SOUTH OF SOUTH PORCH OF CHURCH OF ST MARY

2 COMYNS CHEST TOMBS ABUT 15 METRES SOUTH OF SOUTH PORCH OF CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1250434
Date first listed:: 04-Nov-1985
List Entry Name:: 2 COMYNS CHEST TOMBS ABUT 15 METRES SOUTH OF SOUTH PORCH OF CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address:: 2 COMYNS CHEST TOMBS ABUT 15 METRES SOUTH OF SOUTH PORCH OF CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1250434
Date first listed:: 04-Nov-1985
List Entry Name:: 2 COMYNS CHEST TOMBS ABUT 15 METRES SOUTH OF SOUTH PORCH OF CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address 1:: 2 COMYNS CHEST TOMBS ABUT 15 METRES SOUTH OF SOUTH PORCH OF CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH STREET

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:: 2 COMYNS CHEST TOMBS ABUT 15 METRES SOUTH OF SOUTH PORCH OF CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Devon
District:: Mid Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Morchard Bishop
National Grid Reference:: SS 77304 07460

Details

MORCHARD BISHOP CHURCH STREET (south side) SS 7607 - 7707 Morchard Bishop 11/136 - 2 Comyns chest tombs about 15 metres south of south porch of Church of St Mary GV II

2 adjacent chest tombs. Northern chest tomb circa 1831. Memorial to Reverend John Comyns Churchill (died 1831). Portland stone and white marble. Rectangular in plan with moulded sill and soffit-moulded flat lid. The sides contain sunken panels of white marble with hollow chamfered surrounds. John Comyns Churchill is commemorated on south side under a flat-arched head to panel. Other members of Church family are remembered on other sides. Southern chest tomb circa 1770. Memorial to Peter Comyns (died 1770). Volcanic ashlar and grey basalt. Rectangular in plan with plain ashlar sides on chamfered plinth and simple soffit moulded flat lid. The lid is inscribed and commemorates Peter Comyns and his wife Ann (died 1779) and other members of the Comyns family.

Listing NGR: SS7729407476

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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.