GROUP OF 8 HEADSTONES AND 6 FOOTSTONES APPROXIMATELY 1-6 METRES SOUTH EAST OF SOUTH EAST CORNER OF SOUTH PORCH OF CHURCH OF ST PETER

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1306898
Date first listed:: 09-Apr-1987
List Entry Name:: GROUP OF 8 HEADSTONES AND 6 FOOTSTONES APPROXIMATELY 1-6 METRES SOUTH EAST OF SOUTH EAST CORNER OF SOUTH PORCH OF CHURCH OF ST PETER
Statutory Address:: GROUP OF 8 HEADSTONES AND 6 FOOTSTONES APPROXIMATELY 1-6 METRES SOUTH EAST OF SOUTH EAST CORNER OF SOUTH PORCH OF CHURCH OF ST PETER

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1306898
Date first listed:: 09-Apr-1987
List Entry Name:: GROUP OF 8 HEADSTONES AND 6 FOOTSTONES APPROXIMATELY 1-6 METRES SOUTH EAST OF SOUTH EAST CORNER OF SOUTH PORCH OF CHURCH OF ST PETER
Statutory Address 1:: GROUP OF 8 HEADSTONES AND 6 FOOTSTONES APPROXIMATELY 1-6 METRES SOUTH EAST OF SOUTH EAST CORNER OF SOUTH PORCH OF CHURCH OF ST PETER

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:: GROUP OF 8 HEADSTONES AND 6 FOOTSTONES APPROXIMATELY 1-6 METRES SOUTH EAST OF SOUTH EAST CORNER OF SOUTH PORCH OF CHURCH OF ST PETER

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

County:: Devon
District:: North Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Berrynarbor
National Grid Reference:: SS 56038 46698

Details

BERRYNARBOR BERRYNARBOR SS 54 NE 1/35 Group of 8 headstones and 6 - footstones approximately 1-6 metres south-east of south-east corner of south porch of Church of St. Peter GV II Group of 8 headstones and 6 footstones. Early C18 to early C19. All slate and nowy-arched unless stated. Headstones to John Knill d. 1792 and son; Grace Knill d.1708 with footstone with scrolling foliage to head; footstone (straight-headed) with verse 'My loving wife she leading me ye way/To this dark Bed of Dust, I came to lay' etc.; headstone to John Slocombe d.1810 with urns flanking angels bust to head; Elizabeth Toms with angels bust to head; footstone with verse adjoining to north; Thomas Clark d.1709; wife of John Lerwill d.1792; Thomas Toms d.1786; James Toms d.1815, straight-headed with incised Corinthian-style fluted pilasters flanking inscription; and 3 footstones in line, left-hand stone with incised skull to head, right side with urns flanking skull.

Listing NGR: SS5603846698

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Legacy System number:: 97010
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.