PAIR OF HUBBLE HEADSTONE APPROXIMATELY 3.5 METRES EAST OF THE CHANCEL OF THE CHURCH OF ST THOMAS A BECKET

PAIR OF HUBBLE HEADSTONE APPROXIMATELY 3.5 METRES EAST OF THE CHANCEL OF THE CHURCH OF ST THOMAS A BECKET, CHURCH LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1262841
Date first listed:: 24-Aug-1990
List Entry Name:: PAIR OF HUBBLE HEADSTONE APPROXIMATELY 3.5 METRES EAST OF THE CHANCEL OF THE CHURCH OF ST THOMAS A BECKET
Statutory Address:: PAIR OF HUBBLE HEADSTONE APPROXIMATELY 3.5 METRES EAST OF THE CHANCEL OF THE CHURCH OF ST THOMAS A BECKET, CHURCH LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1262841
Date first listed:: 24-Aug-1990
List Entry Name:: PAIR OF HUBBLE HEADSTONE APPROXIMATELY 3.5 METRES EAST OF THE CHANCEL OF THE CHURCH OF ST THOMAS A BECKET
Statutory Address 1:: PAIR OF HUBBLE HEADSTONE APPROXIMATELY 3.5 METRES EAST OF THE CHANCEL OF THE CHURCH OF ST THOMAS A BECKET, CHURCH LANE

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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Statutory Address:: PAIR OF HUBBLE HEADSTONE APPROXIMATELY 3.5 METRES EAST OF THE CHANCEL OF THE CHURCH OF ST THOMAS A BECKET, CHURCH LANE

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

County:: Kent
District:: Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
Parish:: Capel
National Grid Reference:: TQ 63749 44515

Details

TQ 64 SW CAPEL CHURCH LANE

5/229 Pair of Hubble headstones approx 3.5m east of the chancel of the Church of St Thomas A Becket GV II

Pair of headstones. Mid C18 in memory of members of the Hubble family. 2 good headstones, each an upright slab of sandstone standing approx l.l-1.3m high with shaped head carved with a biblical scene in low relief. The inscriptions begin in Gothic lettering but are mostly in Roman serif upper and lower case lettering including some italics. The left (northern) one represents the Good Samaritan and the inscription records the death of Thomas Hubble, senior, in 1740. The right one features a Judgement Day scene and commemorates the death of Thomas Hubble in 1764 and his son John in 1763.

Listing NGR: TQ6382444536

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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.