THORPE MONUMENT,IMMEDIATELY ADJACENT TO BAY 1 OF NAVE FROM EAST ON NORTH SIDE IN CHURCHYARD OF CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN

THORPE MONUMENT,IMMEDIATELY ADJACENT TO BAY 1 OF NAVE FROM EAST ON NORTH SIDE IN CHURCHYARD OF CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, CHURCH LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1304472
Date first listed:: 09-Sep-1985
List Entry Name:: THORPE MONUMENT,IMMEDIATELY ADJACENT TO BAY 1 OF NAVE FROM EAST ON NORTH SIDE IN CHURCHYARD OF CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN
Statutory Address:: THORPE MONUMENT,IMMEDIATELY ADJACENT TO BAY 1 OF NAVE FROM EAST ON NORTH SIDE IN CHURCHYARD OF CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, CHURCH LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1304472
Date first listed:: 09-Sep-1985
List Entry Name:: THORPE MONUMENT,IMMEDIATELY ADJACENT TO BAY 1 OF NAVE FROM EAST ON NORTH SIDE IN CHURCHYARD OF CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN
Statutory Address 1:: THORPE MONUMENT,IMMEDIATELY ADJACENT TO BAY 1 OF NAVE FROM EAST ON NORTH SIDE IN CHURCHYARD OF CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, CHURCH LANE

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:: THORPE MONUMENT,IMMEDIATELY ADJACENT TO BAY 1 OF NAVE FROM EAST ON NORTH SIDE IN CHURCHYARD OF CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, CHURCH LANE

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

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Stroud (District Authority)
Parish:: Berkeley
National Grid Reference:: ST 68475 99042

Details

ST 69 NE BERKELEY CHURCH LANE (Inset, Section E) (south side)

10/109 Thorpe monument, immediately adjacent to bay 1 of nave from east on north side in churchyard of Church of St. Mary the Virgin.

GV II

Chest tomb, George and Mary Thorpe, latter died 1669. Limestone. Flat top, moulded plinth and capping. Ends have oval panels with heads or skulls. Sides divided into 2 recessed panels with coats of arms to east and inscriptions to west. Top badly eroded, north east side panel breaking up and partially overgrown at time of survey (Nov. 1984). George and Mary Thorpe were grandchildren of George Thorpe and John Smyth who were co-sponsors with Richard Berkeley and Sir William Throckmorton of the Berkeley Hundred Plantation in Virginia, USA, in 1619.

Listing NGR: ST6847599042

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Legacy System number:: 132250
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.