GROUP OF SIX MONUMENTS BY HEDGE AT SOUTH WEST END OF CAR PARK

GROUP OF SIX MONUMENTS BY HEDGE AT SOUTH WEST END OF CAR PARK, ABBEY PRECINCTS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1282816
Date first listed:: 25-Apr-1994
List Entry Name:: GROUP OF SIX MONUMENTS BY HEDGE AT SOUTH WEST END OF CAR PARK
Statutory Address:: GROUP OF SIX MONUMENTS BY HEDGE AT SOUTH WEST END OF CAR PARK, ABBEY PRECINCTS

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1282816
Date first listed:: 25-Apr-1994
List Entry Name:: GROUP OF SIX MONUMENTS BY HEDGE AT SOUTH WEST END OF CAR PARK
Statutory Address 1:: GROUP OF SIX MONUMENTS BY HEDGE AT SOUTH WEST END OF CAR PARK, 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:: GROUP OF SIX MONUMENTS BY HEDGE AT SOUTH WEST END OF CAR PARK, ABBEY PRECINCTS

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

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Tewkesbury (District Authority)
Parish:: Tewkesbury
National Grid Reference:: SO 88968 32435

Details

TEWKESBURY

SO8932 ABBEY CHURCHYARD, Abbey Precincts 859-1/6/360 Group of six monuments by hedge at south-west end of car park

GV II

Group of 6 chest tombs close to hedge of car park at SW end. C18 and C19. Described from NE to SW; (i) Upright chest tomb, earliest decipherable date 1833, to JOSEPH WICKES. Sandstone. Flat ledger to cavetto-mould edges on plain sides with raised panels, inset ends to frieze and base, set to moulded base; (ii) Chest tomb, smaller than preceding, to JAMES GOODSALL, 1790. Sandstone. Flat ledger, raised panels to E and W sides, inset to frieze and base at ends, and set to flared cavetto-mould base. Badly worn in some areas; (iii) Square upright chest tomb, earliest decipherable date 1810, but also BROOKES/BROWNE 1831. Sandstone. Hollow pyramidal capping on flat ledger to moulded edge above frieze, square raised panels, inset corners, set on moulded base; (iv) Lofty chest tomb, earliest decipherable date 1804, to JANE EDWARDS, wife of THOMAS EDWARDS, MASON, 1804. Sandstone. Flat ledger to moulded edges, raised panels to sides with quadrant inset corners, decorative scrolls and rosettes, S end with raised oval panel, all on moulded base and large raised platform. Further inscriptions include ..... STANLEY, 1816; (v) Upright chest tomb, to SAMUEL JOHNS, 1805. Sandstone. Domed pyramid on flat ledger to moulded edges above horizontal fluted frieze, inset corners, raised panels to sides, all on moulded base; (vi) Upright chest tomb, undated, but late C18 style, includes inscription to ROBERT PRICE, PLUMBER. Sandstone. Pyramidal top to fluted edge on flat ledger to moulded edges, deep worn frieze, raised side panels.

Listing NGR: SO8896832435

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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.