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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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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Official list entry

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

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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Location

Statutory Address:: Church of St Swithun, St Swithuns Road

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County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Gloucester (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SO 81376 17021

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This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 11/05/2020

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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

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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.