HEADSTONE ABOUT 12 METRES SOUTH OF THE WEST END OF THE AISLE OF THE CHURCH OF ST MARY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1253817
Date first listed:: 28-Aug-1987
List Entry Name:: HEADSTONE ABOUT 12 METRES SOUTH OF THE WEST END OF THE AISLE OF THE CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address:: HEADSTONE ABOUT 12 METRES SOUTH OF THE WEST END OF THE AISLE OF THE CHURCH OF ST MARY

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1253817
Date first listed:: 28-Aug-1987
List Entry Name:: HEADSTONE ABOUT 12 METRES SOUTH OF THE WEST END OF THE AISLE OF THE CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address 1:: HEADSTONE ABOUT 12 METRES SOUTH OF THE WEST END OF THE AISLE OF THE CHURCH OF ST MARY

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:: HEADSTONE ABOUT 12 METRES SOUTH OF THE WEST END OF THE AISLE OF THE CHURCH OF ST MARY

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

County:: Devon
District:: Mid Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Bickleigh
National Grid Reference:: SS 94216 07166

Details

SS 90 NW BICKLEIGH BICKLEIGH 5/24 Headstone about 12 metres south of - the west end of the aisle of the Church of St Mary GV II Headstone. Late C18. Slate with a later lead capping to preserve the inscription. Shouldered with a rounded head. Parts of the inscription are indistinct but the text is notable, relating the presumably accidental death of "Edward Gibb (s?) of this Parish, who was killed by the stab of a knife at Little-B (probably Little Burn) in this Parish by the Hand of Rob. Hulsey as he was assisting him in Butchering of a swine-hog of which wound in his right thigh through the immense loss of blood, he expired within 15 minutes on Monday 21st Day of Decemeber 1794 - aged 52 years".

Listing NGR: SS9421607166

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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.