SECOND GROUP OF 4 CHAFFEY MONUMENTS IN CHURCHYARD, NORTH OF TOWER, CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1260280
Date first listed:: 27-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:: SECOND GROUP OF 4 CHAFFEY MONUMENTS IN CHURCHYARD, NORTH OF TOWER, CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN
Statutory Address:: SECOND GROUP OF 4 CHAFFEY MONUMENTS IN CHURCHYARD, NORTH OF TOWER, CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN

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Date:: 2001-06-30
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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1260280
Date first listed:: 27-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:: SECOND GROUP OF 4 CHAFFEY MONUMENTS IN CHURCHYARD, NORTH OF TOWER, CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN
Statutory Address 1:: SECOND GROUP OF 4 CHAFFEY MONUMENTS IN CHURCHYARD, NORTH OF TOWER, CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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:: SECOND GROUP OF 4 CHAFFEY MONUMENTS IN CHURCHYARD, NORTH OF TOWER, CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN

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District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Stoke sub Hamdon
National Grid Reference:: ST 48399 17292

Details

ST4817 STOKE SUB HAMDON CP EAST STOKE (South side) 7/288 Second group of 4 Chaffey monuments in churchyard, north of tower, Church of St. Mary the Virgin - GV II Group of 4 chest tombs. C17 and C18, (a) Chaffey monument about 4 metres north of tower: Chest tomb, C17. Ham stone ashlar. Moulded base; plain slab ends and flanks; no frieze; cyma- recta coving to heavy flat top. Commemorates William Chaffey, died 1621, and others, (b) Chaffey monument about 3 metres north of tower: Chest tomb. Cl7. Ham stone ashlar. Moulded base; plain slab ends and flanks, no frieze; cyma recta coving to heavy flat top. Commemorates Francis Chaffey, died 1621. (c)l Chaffey monument about 2 metres north of tower: Chest tomb, C19. Ham stone ashlar; Step base, moulded plinth; one fielded panel to each end and flank, with panelled pilasters to flanks only, no frieze; moulded coving to shallow hipped top with rounded leading edges. Commemorates Benjamin Chaffery, death date not readable,and also Sarah Chaffey, died 1828. (d) Chaffey monument about 1.5 metres north of tower: Chest tomb, C17. Ham stone ashlar; step base, moulded plinth, plain slab sides, string under plain frieze, cyma-recta coving to heavy hipped top. Commemorates Richard Chaffey the elder, died 1631, and Avis his wife, died 1624 and others - one death date 1564.

Listing NGR: ST4839917292

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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.