UNIDENTIFIED CHEST TOMB IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 3 METRES SOUTH OF PORCH, CHURCH OF ST AUGUISTINE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1307458
Date first listed:: 17-May-1985
List Entry Name:: UNIDENTIFIED CHEST TOMB IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 3 METRES SOUTH OF PORCH, CHURCH OF ST AUGUISTINE
Statutory Address:: UNIDENTIFIED CHEST TOMB IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 3 METRES SOUTH OF PORCH, CHURCH OF ST AUGUISTINE

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Date:: 1999-11-06
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1307458
Date first listed:: 17-May-1985
List Entry Name:: UNIDENTIFIED CHEST TOMB IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 3 METRES SOUTH OF PORCH, CHURCH OF ST AUGUISTINE
Statutory Address 1:: UNIDENTIFIED CHEST TOMB IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 3 METRES SOUTH OF PORCH, CHURCH OF ST AUGUISTINE

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:: UNIDENTIFIED CHEST TOMB IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 3 METRES SOUTH OF PORCH, CHURCH OF ST AUGUISTINE

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: West Monkton
National Grid Reference:: ST 26304 28440

Details

ST22NE WEST MONKTON CP WEST MONKTON VILLAGE

6/207 Unidentified chest tomb in churchyard, about 3 metres South of porch, Church of St Augustine

GV II*

Chest tomb. Late C17. Ham stone. Flat topped, frieze ornately carved with lions' masks, diamonds and rosettes, segmental headed bays with decorated spandrels set between caryatids on North and South faces, cartouche below angel's ead at East end, scull and cross bones West end partially sunk below ground. Inscriptions no longer legible but date 1683/8 is discernable on North face. A very handsome chest tomb.

Listing NGR: ST2630428440

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Legacy System number:: 270751
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.