GROUP OF 6 CHEST TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES SOUTH WEST OF SOUTH TRANSEPT AND 30 METRES SOUTH OF NAVE OF CHURCH OF ST MARY

GROUP OF 6 CHEST TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES SOUTH WEST OF SOUTH TRANSEPT AND 30 METRES SOUTH OF NAVE OF CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH GREEN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1289657
Date first listed:: 03-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:: GROUP OF 6 CHEST TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES SOUTH WEST OF SOUTH TRANSEPT AND 30 METRES SOUTH OF NAVE OF CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address:: GROUP OF 6 CHEST TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES SOUTH WEST OF SOUTH TRANSEPT AND 30 METRES SOUTH OF NAVE OF CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH GREEN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1289657
Date first listed:: 03-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:: GROUP OF 6 CHEST TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES SOUTH WEST OF SOUTH TRANSEPT AND 30 METRES SOUTH OF NAVE OF CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address 1:: GROUP OF 6 CHEST TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES SOUTH WEST OF SOUTH TRANSEPT AND 30 METRES SOUTH OF NAVE OF CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH GREEN

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 6 CHEST TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES SOUTH WEST OF SOUTH TRANSEPT AND 30 METRES SOUTH OF NAVE OF CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH GREEN

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

County:: Oxfordshire
District:: West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Witney
National Grid Reference:: SP 35610 09206

Details

WITNEY CHURCH GREEN SP3509S (South side) 11/72 Group of 6 chest tombs approx. 20m. SW of S transept and 30m. S of nave of Church of St. Mary GV II

Six chest tombs. Early C18 to early C19. Early C19 Lankshear tomb to east is panelled with moulded plinth, cornice and top. Two early C18 tombs to north are both plain with revealed inscription panels and splayed plinth and cornice: tomb to east commemorates William Wright, d.1755, Elizabeth Wright, d.1722; tomb to west commemorates Thomas and Susan Wright, and Robert Wright, d.1701, Tomb with corner balusters and fielded panels commemorates John Wright, d.1797. Plain early C18 Wright tomb to Wests Early Cl9 Wright tomb to south-west has panelled sides and moulded plinth and cornice,

Listing NGR: SP3561009206

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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.