Chest tomb approximately 11 metres south east of chancel of Church of St Swithun
Church of St Swithun, St Swithuns Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271740
- Date first listed:
- 15-Dec-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Chest tomb approximately 11 metres south east of chancel of Church of St Swithun
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St Swithun, St Swithuns Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271740
- Date first listed:
- 15-Dec-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Chest tomb approximately 11 metres south east of chancel of Church of St Swithun
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St Swithun, St Swithuns Road
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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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St Swithun, St Swithuns Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Gloucester (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 81376 17021
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 11/05/2020
SO81NW
844-1/3/449
GLOUCESTER
Hempsted
ST SWITHUN'S ROAD, (north side (off))
Chest tomb approximately 11 metres south east of chancel of Church of St Swithun
GV
II
Chest tomb of Captain John Freeman, an officer in the Royalist army, in the churchyard of the Church of St Swithun (qv). Mid C17. A chest of dressed and carved stone slabs. The cover slab with projecting moulded edges is supported on a slab at each end, carved with projecting, foliated volutes and a central escutcheon in an oval, foliated frame relief, and a slab on each side with volutes carved in low relief at the ends. On the south side slab a Latin inscription which in translation reads: "Here lieth John Freeman, Captain of Horse, son of John Freeman, of Bushley, in the County of Worcester, Gentleman, pierced through by the stroke of a gunner's bullet at the siege of Gloucester, in the camp of the King".
John Freeman said to have been killed during a sortie by the Parliamentary defenders of the city in 1643, it is believed that his funeral was attended by Charles I.
Listing NGR: SO8137617021
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 472436
- 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.
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