GROUP OF 8 CHEST TOMBS AND ONE PEDESTAL TOMB ABOUT 3 TO 10 YARDS SOUTH WEST OF SOUTH WEST CORNER OF THE CHURCH OF ST PETER

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1288398
Date first listed:: 26-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: GROUP OF 8 CHEST TOMBS AND ONE PEDESTAL TOMB ABOUT 3 TO 10 YARDS SOUTH WEST OF SOUTH WEST CORNER OF THE CHURCH OF ST PETER
Statutory Address:: GROUP OF 8 CHEST TOMBS AND ONE PEDESTAL TOMB ABOUT 3 TO 10 YARDS SOUTH WEST OF SOUTH WEST CORNER OF THE CHURCH OF ST PETER

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Date:: 2001-06-30
Reference:: IOE01/08127/28
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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1288398
Date first listed:: 26-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: GROUP OF 8 CHEST TOMBS AND ONE PEDESTAL TOMB ABOUT 3 TO 10 YARDS SOUTH WEST OF SOUTH WEST CORNER OF THE CHURCH OF ST PETER
Statutory Address 1:: GROUP OF 8 CHEST TOMBS AND ONE PEDESTAL TOMB ABOUT 3 TO 10 YARDS SOUTH WEST OF SOUTH WEST CORNER OF THE CHURCH OF ST PETER

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 8 CHEST TOMBS AND ONE PEDESTAL TOMB ABOUT 3 TO 10 YARDS SOUTH WEST OF SOUTH WEST CORNER OF THE CHURCH OF ST PETER

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

District:: County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Peterstow
National Grid Reference:: SO 56366 24892

Details

PETERSTOW CP SO 52 SE 6/117 Group of 8 chest tombs and one pedestal tomb about 3 to 10 yards south-west of south-west corner of the Church of St Peter

GV II

Chest tomb for John Addis, died 1837. Sandstone ashlar. Hipped capping and corner balusters.

Chest tomb for Jane Ambrey, died 1802. Sandstone ashlar. Hipped capping.

Chest tomb for Mary Hardwick, died 1827. Sandstone ashlar. Curved hipped capping.

Chest tomb for Mary Ambury, died 1827. Sandstone ashlar. Hipped capping with corner balusters.

Chest tomb for Joseph Ambury, died 1824. Sandstone ashlar. Flat capping and corner balusters.

Chest tomb for Thomas Hardwick, died 1848. Sandstone ashlar. Hipped curved and stepped capping with fluted columnar corner posts.

Chest tomb for Thomas Watham. Late C18 to early C19. Sandstone ashlar. Hipped capping, oval margins and corner paterae to side panels; bulbous end panels with central rosettes.

Chest tomb for Catherine Hardwick, died 1845. Sandstone ashlar. In similar style to that of Thomas Hardwick.

Pedestal tomb for Thomas Watham, c1840. Sandstone ashlar. Stepped capping with finial missing; oval margins to side panels.

Listing NGR: SO5636624892

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Legacy System number:: 399709
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.