A group of 99 headstones to the south-west of St Mary's Church

A group of 99 headstones to the south-west of St Mary's Church, Main Road

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1263650
Date first listed:
17-Nov-1987
List Entry Name:
A group of 99 headstones to the south-west of St Mary's Church
Statutory Address:
A group of 99 headstones to the south-west of St Mary's Church, Main Road
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Date:
2004-09-15
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1263650
Date first listed:
17-Nov-1987
Date of most recent amendment:
26-May-1992
List Entry Name:
A group of 99 headstones to the south-west of St Mary's Church
Statutory Address 1:
A group of 99 headstones to the south-west of St Mary's Church, Main Road

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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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The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

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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Location

Statutory Address:
A group of 99 headstones to the south-west of St Mary's Church, Main Road

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

County:
Nottinghamshire
District:
Rushcliffe (District Authority)
Parish:
Radcliffe on Trent
National Grid Reference:
SK 64477 39201

Details

SK 63 NW
3/92A

RADCLIFFE-ON-TRENT
MAIN ROAD
A group of 99 headstones to the south-west of St Mary's Church

(Formerly listed as A group of 100 headstones to the south-west of St Mary's Church)


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Ninety nine headstones. 1698 to 1836. Slate. To the south-west of the Parish Church of St Andrew is a triangular plot of land bordered on the north-east by a footpath, and on the west by the churchyard wall and on the south by a fence. Within this area are a large number of headstones, 99 of which are of listable quality. They are almost all slate with flat and curved tops and delicately inscribed fronts. They are laid out in very irregular north to south lines; starting from the east the following are of listable quality.

George Graves 1799: Anny Richmond 1792; Martha Richmond 1818: Ann Blasdall 1806: Thomas Richmond 1792: Martha Wood 1829: Timothy and Edith Buxton 1811: John and Ann Knight 1815: Mary Parr 1821: Martha Butler 1754: Ann Whittle 1731: John Corley 1739: Robert Abbott 1754: Mary Marriot 1817: Alice Corley 1789: Elizabeth Keen 1764: Thomas Scrimshaw 1836: Ann Scrimshaw 1823: Thomas Stone 1711: William and Mary Knight 1807: Thomas Knight 1795: John and Mary Butler 1744: Richard Butler 1780: Mary Butler 1802: Ann Knight 1817: Ann Knight 1780: Sarah Butler 1768: William Sutton 1723: Joseph and Ann Benren 1770: William Morley 1766: Ann Buxton 1776: John Weatherall 1787: John Taylor 1783: Richard and Martha Harwood 1754: Sarah Brown 1823 signed by Thomas Mawby: Mary Easter 1778: Edward Hallam 1788: Joseph and Ann Bonren 1782: Robert and Mary Buxton 1799: Richard Harwood 1732: Robert and Elizabeth Green 1807: John and Mary Green 1742: William Harwood 1719: Mary Finn 1808: Mary Barker 1795: Mary Butler 1729: Alice Butler 1737: George Duke 1738: John Walker 1768: Mary Godfrey 1782: Bessey Bennett 1780: Robert Butler 1779: Mary, William and Robert Watson 1792: Dorothy Barker, Richard Doubleday 1756: William Green 1719: Mary Marshall 1773: George and Dorothy Barker 1793:John Green Jnr. 1724: John Graves 1791: John Green 1698: Mary Butler 1801: William Butler 1813: Mary Brewster 1731: John Brewster 1720: Mary Scrimshaw 1808: John Brewster 1746: John and Mary Brewster 1809: John and Sarah Brewster 1823: Joseph and Ann Brewster 1734: John Brewster 1788: John Parr 1740: Thomas Morley 1781: William and Sarah Morley 1771: Samuel Parr 1728: John Parr 1727: Joseph and Edward Watts 1759: William Parr 1736: William Parr 1786: John Parr 1781: Mary Parr 1793: Mary Parr 1771: Ann Whittle 1768: William Parr 1793: Elizabeth Parr 1777: Mary Parr 1737: Sarah Foster 1762: Mary Parr 1758: Richard Foster 1785: Elizabeth Foster 1816: Ann Foster 1742: Sarah and William Cooper 1787: Sarah and John Disney 1765: Mary Parr 1810: Alice and John Parr 1771: Samuel Parr late C18: Mary Parr 1755: Sarah Farr 1797: Thomas Parr 1803: Sarah Parr 1803.

Listing NGR: SK6447739201

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
431877
Legacy System:
LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Ordnance survey map of A group of 99 headstones to the south-west of St Mary's Church

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