PAIR OF GRAVESTONES AT HEAD AND FEET OF LAKE CHILDREN'S GRAVE APPROXIMATELY 12 METRES SOUTH WEST OF SOUTH WEST CORNER

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1263531
Date first listed:: 29-May-1986
List Entry Name:: PAIR OF GRAVESTONES AT HEAD AND FEET OF LAKE CHILDREN'S GRAVE APPROXIMATELY 12 METRES SOUTH WEST OF SOUTH WEST CORNER
Statutory Address:: PAIR OF GRAVESTONES AT HEAD AND FEET OF LAKE CHILDREN'S GRAVE APPROXIMATELY 12 METRES SOUTH WEST OF SOUTH WEST CORNER

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1263531
Date first listed:: 29-May-1986
List Entry Name:: PAIR OF GRAVESTONES AT HEAD AND FEET OF LAKE CHILDREN'S GRAVE APPROXIMATELY 12 METRES SOUTH WEST OF SOUTH WEST CORNER
Statutory Address 1:: PAIR OF GRAVESTONES AT HEAD AND FEET OF LAKE CHILDREN'S GRAVE APPROXIMATELY 12 METRES SOUTH WEST OF SOUTH WEST CORNER

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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 GRAVESTONES AT HEAD AND FEET OF LAKE CHILDREN'S GRAVE APPROXIMATELY 12 METRES SOUTH WEST OF SOUTH WEST CORNER

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County:: Devon
District:: North Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Westleigh
National Grid Reference:: SS 47235 28631

Details

WESTLEIGH WESTLEIGH SS 42 NE 3/137 Pair of gravestones at head and feet of Lake children's grave approximately 12 metres south- west of south-west corner GV II Pair of gravestones. Late C18. Slate. Segmental arch head. Headstone has representation of angel's bust in head above inscription recording deaths of Ann died 1794 and Edward, died 1799, daughter and son of James and Jane Lake. Stone at foot of grave carries verse: 'Sweet babes of light in Innocence carried, Shown to this world but for a better made Whose early flight to blissful climes unknown makes Angels sing and tender parents mourn.'

Listing NGR: SS4723528634

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Legacy System number:: 432143
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.