COBBETT CHEST TOMB AND AREA RAILINGS IMMEDIATELY NORTH OF CHURCH OF ST ANDREW

COBBETT CHEST TOMB AND AREA RAILINGS IMMEDIATELY NORTH OF CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, CHURCH YARD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1272752
Date first listed:: 13-Feb-1991
List Entry Name:: COBBETT CHEST TOMB AND AREA RAILINGS IMMEDIATELY NORTH OF CHURCH OF ST ANDREW
Statutory Address:: COBBETT CHEST TOMB AND AREA RAILINGS IMMEDIATELY NORTH OF CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, CHURCH YARD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1272752
Date first listed:: 13-Feb-1991
List Entry Name:: COBBETT CHEST TOMB AND AREA RAILINGS IMMEDIATELY NORTH OF CHURCH OF ST ANDREW
Statutory Address 1:: COBBETT CHEST TOMB AND AREA RAILINGS IMMEDIATELY NORTH OF CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, CHURCH YARD

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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Statutory Address:: COBBETT CHEST TOMB AND AREA RAILINGS IMMEDIATELY NORTH OF CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, CHURCH YARD

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County:: Surrey
District:: Waverley (District Authority)
Parish:: Farnham
National Grid Reference:: SU 83849 46695

Details

SU 8346 NE FARNHAM CHURCH YARD 5/401 Cobbett Chest Tomb and area railings immediately North of Church of St Andrew GV II Chest tomb. Circa 1835. Stone, partly rendered. Large rectangular chest with moulded base and lid, the lid with weathered top. Each end has double-recessed 4-centred rusticated arch panel containing patee fitched cross and date. The sides have recessed inscription plaques and flanking corner piers with double recessed rusticated round-headed niche containing upturned torch. The chest stands on large ashlar plinth with cast-iron area railings of intersecting pattern with cresting and polygonal corner standards. William Cobbett, essayist, politician and agriculturalist, was born 1762 in Farnham, he was the son of a labourer, and died at Normandy Farm, near Guildford in 1835.

Listing NGR: SU8384946695

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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.