FOUR CHEST TOMBS TO SOUTH AND EAST OF THE PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY

FOUR CHEST TOMBS TO SOUTH AND EAST OF THE PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1287866
Date first listed:: 11-Aug-1988
List Entry Name:: FOUR CHEST TOMBS TO SOUTH AND EAST OF THE PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address:: FOUR CHEST TOMBS TO SOUTH AND EAST OF THE PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1287866
Date first listed:: 11-Aug-1988
List Entry Name:: FOUR CHEST TOMBS TO SOUTH AND EAST OF THE PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address 1:: FOUR CHEST TOMBS TO SOUTH AND EAST OF THE PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY, 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:: FOUR CHEST TOMBS TO SOUTH AND EAST OF THE PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH STREET

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County:: Cambridgeshire
District:: Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Stilton
National Grid Reference:: TL 15972 89247

Details

STILTON CHURCH STREET TL 1489 (South Side) 9/48 Four chest tombs to south and east of the Parish Church of St Mary

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Four chest tombs, late C18 and early C19. Limestone, and with slate insertions. Identified as e,f,g and h. Chest tomb e: circa eight metres south of south aisle, moulded lid and base with plain corner pilasters, inscriptions on raised square plaques to Ann Wife of William Sanfield d.1797 and Amy wife of John Mason d.178- and William --- and John Mason, painted black. Chest tomb f: circa eleven metres south of chancel, by Andrews of Wisbech (1797-1841) moulded stepped and coped lid, deep plinth, frieze and classical ornament with crossed torches palm fronds, sculpture of winged Father Time with medallion of bust wreathed, oval plaques with unclear inscriptions. Chest tomb : circa twelve metres south of chancel, moulded lid, chamfered plinth with reeded corner pilasters and decoration to surround of plaque inscribed to Joseph Newton late of Willow Hall d.1815. Chest tomb h: circa six metres east of north aisle, by Andrews of Wisbech (1797-1841), square planned with details similar to (f), but with inserted diamond shaped slate panels carrying inscriptions to Frances wife of Henry? Thomas d.179-. These chest tombs are representative of a number of chest tombs in the churchyard, and C17 and C18 tombstones of historic interest and design detail. R C H M Huntingdonshire, p257 Burgess, English Churchyard Memorials, 1979

Listing NGR: TL1597289247

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Legacy System number:: 401228
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Huntingdonshire, (1926), 257
Burgess, F , English Churchyard Memorials, (1963)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.