UNKNOWN CHEST TOMB, IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 16 METRES SOUTH OF TOWER, CHURCH OF ST ANDREW

UNKNOWN CHEST TOMB, IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 16 METRES SOUTH OF TOWER, CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, VICTORIA STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1262665
Date first listed:: 31-May-1985
List Entry Name:: UNKNOWN CHEST TOMB, IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 16 METRES SOUTH OF TOWER, CHURCH OF ST ANDREW
Statutory Address:: UNKNOWN CHEST TOMB, IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 16 METRES SOUTH OF TOWER, CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, VICTORIA STREET

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Date:: 2001-03-02
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1262665
Date first listed:: 31-May-1985
List Entry Name:: UNKNOWN CHEST TOMB, IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 16 METRES SOUTH OF TOWER, CHURCH OF ST ANDREW
Statutory Address 1:: UNKNOWN CHEST TOMB, IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 16 METRES SOUTH OF TOWER, CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, VICTORIA 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:: UNKNOWN CHEST TOMB, IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 16 METRES SOUTH OF TOWER, CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, VICTORIA STREET

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Burnham-on-Sea and Highbridge
National Grid Reference:: ST 30420 49390

Details

ST34SW BURNHAM-ON-SEA CP VICTORIA STREET (West side)

8/53 Unknown chest tomb, in churchyard, about 16 metres South of tower, Church of St. Andrew

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GV II

Unknown chest tomb. Probably early C18. Dressed stone chest on a moulded plinth, corner pilasters and a central pilaster to North and South sides, those to South and that at North-West corner decayed; a Blue Lias panel between each pilaster; hipped top moulded around its edge.

Listing NGR: ST3042049390

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Legacy System number:: 434350
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.