PRENDERGAST AND DE ROLL CHEST TOMBS IMMEDIATELY WEST OF THE PORCH OF THE CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE

PRENDERGAST AND DE ROLL CHEST TOMBS IMMEDIATELY WEST OF THE PORCH OF THE CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1277727
Date first listed:: 24-Aug-1990
List Entry Name:: PRENDERGAST AND DE ROLL CHEST TOMBS IMMEDIATELY WEST OF THE PORCH OF THE CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE
Statutory Address:: PRENDERGAST AND DE ROLL CHEST TOMBS IMMEDIATELY WEST OF THE PORCH OF THE CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1277727
Date first listed:: 24-Aug-1990
List Entry Name:: PRENDERGAST AND DE ROLL CHEST TOMBS IMMEDIATELY WEST OF THE PORCH OF THE CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE
Statutory Address 1:: PRENDERGAST AND DE ROLL CHEST TOMBS IMMEDIATELY WEST OF THE PORCH OF THE CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE, HIGH 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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Statutory Address:: PRENDERGAST AND DE ROLL CHEST TOMBS IMMEDIATELY WEST OF THE PORCH OF THE CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE, HIGH STREET

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

County:: Kent
District:: Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
Parish:: Bidborough
National Grid Reference:: TQ 56507 43194

Details

TQ 56 43 BIDBOROUGH HIGH STREET (east side)

11/12 Prendergast and de Roll Chest tombs immediately west of the porch of the Church of St Lawrence

GV II

Pair of chest tombs. Early C19. Freestone. The northern chest is against the south wall of the church: a rectangular chest with moulded corner pilasters and a coped lid, commemorating Dorathy [sic] Prendergast, died 1821. Immediately south of it a low sarcophagus with a steeply-coped lid commemorates Louis Robert Roll, Count of the Holy Roman Empire, died 1813. Skinner transcribes the long verse on the tomb including: "He stood unchanged at Fortune's bitter frown,/that bore the House of Bourbon down;/He cheered its exile, gained its just applause,/And died at last a martyr to its cause." (Skinner, pp.22-3)

Skinner, F.A., Bidborough, a Parish History (1986 edn.).

Listing NGR: TQ5650743194

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Skinner, F A, Bidborough a Parish History, (1986)

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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.