PAIR OF KIPPING HEADSTONES APPROXIMATELY 2.5 METRES EAST OF THE VESTRY OF THE CHURCH OF ST THOMAS A BECKET

PAIR OF KIPPING HEADSTONES APPROXIMATELY 2.5 METRES EAST OF THE VESTRY OF THE CHURCH OF ST THOMAS A BECKET, CHURCH LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1262870
Date first listed:: 24-Aug-1990
List Entry Name:: PAIR OF KIPPING HEADSTONES APPROXIMATELY 2.5 METRES EAST OF THE VESTRY OF THE CHURCH OF ST THOMAS A BECKET
Statutory Address:: PAIR OF KIPPING HEADSTONES APPROXIMATELY 2.5 METRES EAST OF THE VESTRY OF THE CHURCH OF ST THOMAS A BECKET, CHURCH LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1262870
Date first listed:: 24-Aug-1990
List Entry Name:: PAIR OF KIPPING HEADSTONES APPROXIMATELY 2.5 METRES EAST OF THE VESTRY OF THE CHURCH OF ST THOMAS A BECKET
Statutory Address 1:: PAIR OF KIPPING HEADSTONES APPROXIMATELY 2.5 METRES EAST OF THE VESTRY 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.

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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Statutory Address:: PAIR OF KIPPING HEADSTONES APPROXIMATELY 2.5 METRES EAST OF THE VESTRY OF THE CHURCH OF ST THOMAS A BECKET, CHURCH LANE

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County:: Kent
District:: Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
Parish:: Capel
National Grid Reference:: TQ 63747 44518

Details

TQ 64 SW CAPEL CHURCH LANE

5/230 Pair of Kipping headstones approx 2.5m east of the vestry of the Church of St Thomas A Becket GV II

Pair of headstones. Both date from the 1680s and commemorate members of the Kipping family. Both are upright slabs of sandstone standing approx 350-400mm high. Both have shaped heads with plain projecting surrounds. The heads are each carved with an hourglass and the inscriptions are in Roman serif capitals. The left (northern) one records the death of William Kipping in 1681 and the right one records the death of Thomas Kipping in 1685.

Listing NGR: TQ6382444536

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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.