Grave monument to W.E Henley at St John the Baptist Church

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1300801
Date first listed:: 14-Sep-1993
List Entry Name:: Grave monument to W.E Henley at St John the Baptist Church
Statutory Address:: Grave monument to W.E Henley at St John the Baptist Church

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Date:: 1999-11-06
Reference:: IOE01/01361/31
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1300801
Date first listed:: 14-Sep-1993
List Entry Name:: Grave monument to W.E Henley at St John the Baptist Church
Statutory Address 1:: Grave monument to W.E Henley at St John the Baptist Church

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:: Grave monument to W.E Henley at St John the Baptist Church

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District:: Central Bedfordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Wrestlingworth and Cockayne Hatley
National Grid Reference:: TL 25606 49608

Details

TL 24 NE 6/10000 WRESTLINGWORTH AND COCKAYNE HATLEY - Grave monument to W.E Henley at St John the Baptist Church

GV II Monument to W.E Henley, 1903; memorial slab to his daughter Margaret set into rear. Stone with metal panels of low relief sculpture. Monument takes the form of a primitive Doric aedicule. Henley was a well-known poet. His ashes, together with his wife's, were buried in the grave of his daughter Margaret, who is buried in the churchyard. Margaret was the inspiration for 'Wendy' in the story of Peter Pan by J M Barrie.

Listing NGR: TL2560649608

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Legacy System number:: 350302
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.