WREN MONUMENT IN ST MARY'S CHURCHYARD (25 METRES TO WEST SOUTH WEST OF EAST GATE TO CHURCHYARD)

WREN MONUMENT IN ST MARY'S CHURCHYARD (25 METRES TO WEST SOUTH WEST OF EAST GATE TO CHURCHYARD), CHURCH END

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1296481
Date first listed:: 24-Jan-1984
List Entry Name:: WREN MONUMENT IN ST MARY'S CHURCHYARD (25 METRES TO WEST SOUTH WEST OF EAST GATE TO CHURCHYARD)
Statutory Address:: WREN MONUMENT IN ST MARY'S CHURCHYARD (25 METRES TO WEST SOUTH WEST OF EAST GATE TO CHURCHYARD), CHURCH END

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1296481
Date first listed:: 24-Jan-1984
List Entry Name:: WREN MONUMENT IN ST MARY'S CHURCHYARD (25 METRES TO WEST SOUTH WEST OF EAST GATE TO CHURCHYARD)
Statutory Address 1:: WREN MONUMENT IN ST MARY'S CHURCHYARD (25 METRES TO WEST SOUTH WEST OF EAST GATE TO CHURCHYARD), CHURCH END

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:: WREN MONUMENT IN ST MARY'S CHURCHYARD (25 METRES TO WEST SOUTH WEST OF EAST GATE TO CHURCHYARD), CHURCH END

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

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Braughing
National Grid Reference:: TL 39673 25187

Details

Braughing village TL 3925 BRAUGHING CHURCH END (east side)

9/30 Wren Monument in St Mary's churchyard (25m to WSW of - E gate to churchyard)

GV II

Memorial cross and enclosure. Circa 1898. Bronze plates, probably over a wooden armature, oak railed enclosure with memorial plaque. A slender tapering standing-cross about 2m high facing W. Repousee decoration in Arts and Crafts style to front. Buttressed shaft rises from swept square base, with plinth and corner turrets. Head of cross covered by a deep semi- cylindrical bronze hood. Low enclosure around of oak posts and rails with gabled central framed panel on W about lm high, with repousee inscriptions to Walter Wren 1834-98 and other members of family. Bronze capping to gabled top of panel.

Listing NGR: TL3967325187

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Legacy System number:: 161173
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.