MARY FIELD MONUMENT IN THE OLD CHURCHYARD 35 METRES SOUTH FROM CHURCH PORCH

MARY FIELD MONUMENT IN THE OLD CHURCHYARD 35 METRES SOUTH FROM CHURCH PORCH, WARE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1307660
Date first listed:: 19-Sep-1984
List Entry Name:: MARY FIELD MONUMENT IN THE OLD CHURCHYARD 35 METRES SOUTH FROM CHURCH PORCH
Statutory Address:: MARY FIELD MONUMENT IN THE OLD CHURCHYARD 35 METRES SOUTH FROM CHURCH PORCH, WARE ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1307660
Date first listed:: 19-Sep-1984
List Entry Name:: MARY FIELD MONUMENT IN THE OLD CHURCHYARD 35 METRES SOUTH FROM CHURCH PORCH
Statutory Address 1:: MARY FIELD MONUMENT IN THE OLD CHURCHYARD 35 METRES SOUTH FROM CHURCH PORCH, WARE ROAD

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:: MARY FIELD MONUMENT IN THE OLD CHURCHYARD 35 METRES SOUTH FROM CHURCH PORCH, WARE ROAD

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

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Widford
National Grid Reference:: TL 41290 15762

Details

TL 4115 WIDFORD WARE ROAD (north side)

5/4 Mary Field Monument in the old churchyard - 35 metres S from church porch

GV II

Monument. Circa 1792. Limestone. A tall memorial slab with curved moulded top carved with palmette urns in low relief each side. Well cut inscription 'To the Memory of Mrs Mary Field (sic) who departed this Life July 31st 1792. Aged 79 Years'. Below are the lines:

On the green hill top Hard by the Houfe of Prayer a modeft roof And not diftinguished from its neighbour town Save by a flender-tapering length of fpire The Grandame fleeps CHARLES LAMB.

Mary Field, grandmother of Charles Lamb and subject of the poem 'The Grandame', was housekeeper at Blakesware, which adjoins Widford on the NW. Part of the churchyard group.

Listing NGR: TL4129015762

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Legacy System number:: 160046
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.