GROUP OF EIGHT EARLY C18 TOMBS TO SOUTH OF THE SAXON CHURCH

GROUP OF EIGHT EARLY C18 TOMBS TO SOUTH OF THE SAXON CHURCH, SAXON GREEN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1297554
Date first listed:: 23-May-1994
List Entry Name:: GROUP OF EIGHT EARLY C18 TOMBS TO SOUTH OF THE SAXON CHURCH
Statutory Address:: GROUP OF EIGHT EARLY C18 TOMBS TO SOUTH OF THE SAXON CHURCH, SAXON GREEN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1297554
Date first listed:: 23-May-1994
List Entry Name:: GROUP OF EIGHT EARLY C18 TOMBS TO SOUTH OF THE SAXON CHURCH
Statutory Address 1:: GROUP OF EIGHT EARLY C18 TOMBS TO SOUTH OF THE SAXON CHURCH, SAXON GREEN

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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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Statutory Address:: GROUP OF EIGHT EARLY C18 TOMBS TO SOUTH OF THE SAXON CHURCH, SAXON GREEN

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District:: County Durham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: NZ 18928 30131

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BISHOP AUCKLAND

NZ13SE SAXON GREEN, Escomb 634-1/1/137 Group of eight early C18 tombs to south of the Saxon Church

GV II

Group of 8 early and mid C18 tombs. Stone, probably sandstone. All positions given are distances from centre of church porch. (i) 6m SW: headstone 0.5m high with serpentine head. West face has inscription in large letters to Ralph Simpson d.1729, with 4-petalled flower at head linked by incised line to corner paterae. Top has deeply-cut groove ending in stylised leaves. Reverse has recessed panel with low relief simplified skull and crossed bones, over partly obscured Latin inscription `Beati sunt mortui qui in Dom..' (ii) 6m NE: low headstone 0.4m high with rounded top. To Peter Brown d.1730. (iii) 6m E: headstone 0.5m high. To Elizabeth ?Brown d.1737. (iv) 6m SE: headstone with twin semicircles at head, and border with rings, plus paired fern-like leaves spring from junction of semicircles at head. Inscription to Cristefar Robson or Pearson d.1703. Hour glass carved on rear. (v) 9m SE: headstone 0.5m high, with 4 segments along top. To Mary Spark d.1755. (vi) 12m SE: headstone 0.5m high with bracket-shaped top. To Margaret Robson d.1775 aged 17. (vii) 8m E: headstone 0.5m high with round top and large inscription to John Brown d.1750, and his wife Catherine, of Witton le Wear. (viii) 10m E: headstone 0.5m high with elaborate bracket-shaped top. To (indecipherable) d.1730 aged 63.

Listing NGR: NZ1892830131

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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.