CHEST TOMB ABOUT 10 METRES WEST OF CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1255130
Date first listed:: 04-Nov-1985
List Entry Name:: CHEST TOMB ABOUT 10 METRES WEST OF CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW
Statutory Address:: CHEST TOMB ABOUT 10 METRES WEST OF CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW

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Date:: 2002-07-06
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1255130
Date first listed:: 04-Nov-1985
List Entry Name:: CHEST TOMB ABOUT 10 METRES WEST OF CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW
Statutory Address 1:: CHEST TOMB ABOUT 10 METRES WEST OF CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW

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:: CHEST TOMB ABOUT 10 METRES WEST OF CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW

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

County:: Devon
District:: Mid Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Cheriton Fitzpaine
National Grid Reference:: SS 86713 06188

Details

CHERITON FITZPAINE CHERITON FITZPAINE SS 80 NE 7/18 - Chest Tomb about 10 metres west of Tower of Church of St. Matthew GV II

Chest tomb. Circa 1831. Portland Stone ashlar. Rectangular in plan on chamfered plinth with hollow-moulded base and low pitched lid. Clasping pilasters on each corner with recessed panels. South side records death of John Cross Pitt, aged 17 (died 1831) and east side the death of John Pitt (died 1836) and Thomas Pitt (died 1811). The lid has memorials to other members of the Pitt family from the later C19.

Listing NGR: SS8671306188

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Legacy System number:: 458771
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.