A8, Monument 55
A8, MONUMENT 55, ABBEY PRECINCTS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1272037
- Date first listed:
- 30-Oct-1997
- List Entry Name:
- A8, Monument 55
- Statutory Address:
- A8, MONUMENT 55, ABBEY PRECINCTS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1272037
- Date first listed:
- 30-Oct-1997
- List Entry Name:
- A8, Monument 55
- Statutory Address 1:
- A8, MONUMENT 55, ABBEY PRECINCTS
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.
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:
- A8, MONUMENT 55, ABBEY PRECINCTS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- West Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bury St. Edmunds
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 85716 63988
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8563NE ABBEY PRECINCTS, Great Churchyard 639-1/17/52 A 8, MON: 55
GV II
Churchyard monument. 1834. Head and footstone. Portland stone. A good original verse epitaph to a Sergeant Major in the Grenadier Guards, WILLIAM MIDDLEDITCH. The verse reads:- A HUSBAND, FATHER, COMRADE, FRIEND SINCERE, A BRITISH SOLDIER BRAVE LIES BURIED HERE. IN SPAIN AND FLUSHING AND AT WATERLOO HE FOUGHT TO GUARD OUR COUNTRY FROM THE FOE. HIS COMRADES, BRITONS WHO SURVIVE HIM, SAY HE ACTED NOBLY ON THAT GLORIOUS DAY. (Survey of Monuments in the Great Churchyard c.1960: West Suffolk CC: SECTION 8).
Listing NGR: TL8571663988
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466518
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
West Suffolk County Council, , Survey of Monuments in the Great Churchyard c.1960, (), Section 8
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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