CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 1 METRE SOUTH OF THE SOUTH AISLE WALL CHURCH OF ST LAURENCE

CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 1 METRE SOUTH OF THE SOUTH AISLE WALL CHURCH OF ST LAURENCE, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1272185
Date first listed:: 22-Dec-1997
List Entry Name:: CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 1 METRE SOUTH OF THE SOUTH AISLE WALL CHURCH OF ST LAURENCE
Statutory Address:: CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 1 METRE SOUTH OF THE SOUTH AISLE WALL CHURCH OF ST LAURENCE, CHURCH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1272185
Date first listed:: 22-Dec-1997
List Entry Name:: CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 1 METRE SOUTH OF THE SOUTH AISLE WALL CHURCH OF ST LAURENCE
Statutory Address 1:: CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 1 METRE SOUTH OF THE SOUTH AISLE WALL CHURCH OF ST LAURENCE, CHURCH STREET

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:: CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 1 METRE SOUTH OF THE SOUTH AISLE WALL CHURCH OF ST LAURENCE, CHURCH STREET

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

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Weymouth
National Grid Reference:: SY 66055 85229

Details

WEYMOUTH

SY6685 CHURCH STREET, Upwey 873-1/5/556 (West side) Chest tomb approx 1m south of the south aisle wall, Church of St Laurence

GV II

Chest tomb. Early to mid C17. Portland stone. A plain chest with very thick ledger slab to deep cyma recta edge. The chest is made from large plain stone slabs, and there are worn remains of an inscription in capitals on the N side (facing the church). The base has sunk below ground level. This form of chest with its thick slab is typically of the early C17.

Listing NGR: SY6605585229

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Legacy System number:: 467388
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.