A8, MONUMENTS 153, 161A, 162 AND 176

A8, MONUMENTS 153, 161A, 162 AND 176, ABBEY PRECINCTS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1272043
Date first listed:: 30-Oct-1997
List Entry Name:: A8, MONUMENTS 153, 161A, 162 AND 176
Statutory Address:: A8, MONUMENTS 153, 161A, 162 AND 176, ABBEY PRECINCTS

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1272043
Date first listed:: 30-Oct-1997
List Entry Name:: A8, MONUMENTS 153, 161A, 162 AND 176
Statutory Address 1:: A8, MONUMENTS 153, 161A, 162 AND 176, ABBEY PRECINCTS

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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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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Location

Statutory Address:: A8, MONUMENTS 153, 161A, 162 AND 176, 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 85685 64013

Details

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SE ABBEY PRECINCTS, Great Churchyard 639-1/17/58 A 8, MON: 153, 161A, 162, 176

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A group of 4 churchyard monuments:- MON 153: Headstone. Early C19. Ketton stone. No inscription. A winged skull with crossed palms and an hourglass. MON 161A: Headstone. Early C19. Ketton stone. No inscription. 2 very good large winged angel heads. MON 162: Headstone. Early C19. Ketton stone. A double inscription panel framed by flower festoons and surmounted by 2 winged angel heads flanking a central Eye of God. MON 176: Headstone. 1799. Ketton stone. To ? WOOD,..ill. 2 winged angel heads flank a pyramid with an inscription panel like a sarcophagus with feet. (Survey of Monuments in the Great Churchyard c.1960: West Suffolk CC: SECTION 8).

Listing NGR: TL8568564013

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Legacy System number:: 466524
Legacy System:: LBS

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West Suffolk County Council, , Survey of Monuments in the Great Churchyard c.1960Section 8

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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.