STEVENSON TOMB CLOSE TO CHANCEL SOUTH WALL OF CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE

STEVENSON TOMB CLOSE TO CHANCEL SOUTH WALL OF CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE, FRONT STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1260988
Date first listed:: 21-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:: STEVENSON TOMB CLOSE TO CHANCEL SOUTH WALL OF CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE
Statutory Address:: STEVENSON TOMB CLOSE TO CHANCEL SOUTH WALL OF CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE, FRONT STREET

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Date:: 1999-08-04
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1260988
Date first listed:: 21-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:: STEVENSON TOMB CLOSE TO CHANCEL SOUTH WALL OF CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE
Statutory Address 1:: STEVENSON TOMB CLOSE TO CHANCEL SOUTH WALL OF CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE, FRONT 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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: STEVENSON TOMB CLOSE TO CHANCEL SOUTH WALL OF CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE, FRONT STREET

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

District:: County Durham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: NZ 11904 54370

Details

AMB NZ 15 SW 6/63 (inset)

CONSETT FRONT STREET (West Side) Medomsley Stevenson tomb close to chancel south wall of Church of St. Mary Magdalene

II GV

Chest tomb. Circa 1631. Commemorates John and Ambreas Stevenson. Sandstone. Large slabs form chest on wider base; flat overhanging coping inscribed HERE LYETH THE BODY / OF JOHN STEVENSON (sic) / GENTLEMAN LORD AND / MASTER OF BIERSID WHO / DEPARTED TO THE MARCY / OF GOD THE 17 DAY OF SEP/TEMBER IN THE MORNE/ING AND WAS BVERED / THE 18 DAY AT NIGHT / ANO DOMNI 1639 and HEAR LIES THE BODY / OF AMBREAS STEVEN/SON OF BIERSID THE YOUNGER DEPARTED / THIS LIFE THE SIXT / DAY OF OCTOBER / IN THE YEAR / OF OUR LORD GOD / ANO 1689.

Listing NGR: NZ1190454370

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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.