ROW OF 29 HEADSTONES APPROXIMATELY 8 METRERS SOUTH OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST MARY

ROW OF 29 HEADSTONES APPROXIMATELY 8 METRERS SOUTH OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST MARY, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1300954
Date first listed:: 05-May-1988
List Entry Name:: ROW OF 29 HEADSTONES APPROXIMATELY 8 METRERS SOUTH OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address:: ROW OF 29 HEADSTONES APPROXIMATELY 8 METRERS SOUTH OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST MARY, HIGH STREET

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Date:: 2001-05-07
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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1300954
Date first listed:: 05-May-1988
List Entry Name:: ROW OF 29 HEADSTONES APPROXIMATELY 8 METRERS SOUTH OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address 1:: ROW OF 29 HEADSTONES APPROXIMATELY 8 METRERS SOUTH OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST MARY, HIGH STREET

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:: ROW OF 29 HEADSTONES APPROXIMATELY 8 METRERS SOUTH OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST MARY, HIGH STREET

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

County:: Oxfordshire
District:: Cherwell (District Authority)
Parish:: Adderbury
National Grid Reference:: SP 47070 35364

Details

SP4735 ADDERBURY HIGH STREET - (West side) Adderbury East 7/66 Row of 29 headstones approx. 8m S of tower of Church of St. Mary

GV II 29 headstones. Late C17, early C18 and mid C18. Mostly marlstone but some limestone. Nos.2, 4 to 12, 14, 18, 19, 22, 25 and 28 are early C18 with segmental heads and cartouches formed by flowers, drapery and cherubs. Nos.1, 3, 15, 16, 20, 26 and 27 have shallower carving and are mostly later. No.13, in limestone, has a scrolled head and a shield-shaped inscription panel, framed by fruit and flowers, commemorating William Caseles (d.1680). No.17 has a square recessed panel flanked by scrolls commemorating William Wise (d.1699). No.21 has an inscription, framed by drapery and flowers below a winged-cherub head, commemorating Richard Pottienger (d.1688/9). No.23. has a scrolled head and an inscription panel formed on folded drapery, the inscription commemorating Margaret Lawry (d.1692). No.24 has a rectangular panel flanked by scrolls and is probably c.1700; it commemorates Elizabeth Horwood. No.29 has a recessed shield-shaped panel below a scrolled head, and commemorates Jane Baswell (d.1662). The headstones are arranged in a single closely-spaced row against the boundary wall of the Manor House (q.v.). (Country Life, 1949, Vol 105, p89)

Listing NGR: SP4707035364

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'Country Life' in Country Life, , Vol. 105, (1949), 89

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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.