2 HARPER MONUMENTS IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 16 METRES NORTH OF CENTRE OF NORTH FACE OF TOWER, CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1299163
Date first listed:: 04-Jul-1985
List Entry Name:: 2 HARPER MONUMENTS IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 16 METRES NORTH OF CENTRE OF NORTH FACE OF TOWER, CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL
Statutory Address:: 2 HARPER MONUMENTS IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 16 METRES NORTH OF CENTRE OF NORTH FACE OF TOWER, CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL

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Date:: 1999-10-06
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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1299163
Date first listed:: 04-Jul-1985
List Entry Name:: 2 HARPER MONUMENTS IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 16 METRES NORTH OF CENTRE OF NORTH FACE OF TOWER, CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL
Statutory Address 1:: 2 HARPER MONUMENTS IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 16 METRES NORTH OF CENTRE OF NORTH FACE OF TOWER, CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL

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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Location

Statutory Address:: 2 HARPER MONUMENTS IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 16 METRES NORTH OF CENTRE OF NORTH FACE OF TOWER, CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL

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

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Forest of Dean (District Authority)
Parish:: Westbury-on-Severn
National Grid Reference:: SO 71715 13935

Details

SO 71 SW WESTBURY-ON-SEVERN WESTBURY VILLAGE

11/224 2 Harper monuments in churchyard, about 16m north of centre of north face of tower, Church of St. Peter and St. Paul

GV II

2 chest combs; 1781 and 1769; stone. Southern, flat lid, plain moulded edge, quarter square corner balusters carved with square scrolls and leaves. South side narrow top margin, with main central part flanked by narrow rectangular ends: centre head with wings at top, rococo scrolls around panel. End panels pendant rings with flowers below. Ends rectangular panels with rococo scrolling around edge. To Mary Harper, died 1781, long s used in inscription: inscription to Thomas Harper, her husband, died 1785, added. Record of children dying before parents on end. Later inscriptions on lid. Adjoining, immediately to north, flat lid, plain moulded edge; north face as south of Mary Harper monument, but with flowers and ribbon edging to main central panel rather than scrolls. Quarter square gadrooned balusters at corners; ends serpent of eternity around an hourglass, fronds above, feathers to sides, further carving as stand below. To John, son of Thomas Harper, died 1769. Adjacent faces of monuments not inspected.

Listing NGR: SO7171513935

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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.