TWO ROWS OF 3 AND 5 HEADSTONES ABOUT 5 TO 15 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST JOHN

TWO ROWS OF 3 AND 5 HEADSTONES ABOUT 5 TO 15 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST JOHN, CHURCH ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1276695
Date first listed:: 16-Feb-1989
List Entry Name:: TWO ROWS OF 3 AND 5 HEADSTONES ABOUT 5 TO 15 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST JOHN
Statutory Address:: TWO ROWS OF 3 AND 5 HEADSTONES ABOUT 5 TO 15 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST JOHN, CHURCH ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1276695
Date first listed:: 16-Feb-1989
List Entry Name:: TWO ROWS OF 3 AND 5 HEADSTONES ABOUT 5 TO 15 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST JOHN
Statutory Address 1:: TWO ROWS OF 3 AND 5 HEADSTONES ABOUT 5 TO 15 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST JOHN, CHURCH ROAD

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:: TWO ROWS OF 3 AND 5 HEADSTONES ABOUT 5 TO 15 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST JOHN, CHURCH ROAD

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

County:: Kent
District:: Ashford (District Authority)
Parish:: Mersham
National Grid Reference:: TR 05245 39349

Details

TR 03 NE MERSHAM CHURCH ROAD (east side) 7/98 Two rows of 3 and 5 headstones about 5 to 15 metres south of Church of St. John

GV II

Eight headstones in 2 rows. First row of 3, all about 2 feet high, with scrolled and shaped heads, the first with trumpets and cherub head, the second with skull in profile over crossed bones and the to Elizabeth Hann, d.1729 with winged cherub over raised and fielded panel. Second row of 5, all about 2½ feet high, the northernmost a double headstone, with scrolled shoulders and doubled cornice separated by small relief death's head with motife of winged hourglass and death's head. The adjacent stone, about 3 feet high with scrolled shaped head; and skull in profile over bones. Two adjacent similar stones, with Rocaille scrolled heads, with motif of open book within a heart over round-headed inscription panel, the other with indented rectangular panel. The fifth stone to John Home, d.1749. With scrolled shoulders to pediment shaped cornice with cherub in sunburst.

Listing NGR: TR0504039348

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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.