GROUP OF 7 CHEST TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 15 METRES WEST OF CHURCH OF ST OSWALD

GROUP OF 7 CHEST TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 15 METRES WEST OF CHURCH OF ST OSWALD, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1307980
Date first listed:: 15-May-1986
List Entry Name:: GROUP OF 7 CHEST TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 15 METRES WEST OF CHURCH OF ST OSWALD
Statutory Address:: GROUP OF 7 CHEST TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 15 METRES WEST OF CHURCH OF ST OSWALD, CHURCH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1307980
Date first listed:: 15-May-1986
List Entry Name:: GROUP OF 7 CHEST TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 15 METRES WEST OF CHURCH OF ST OSWALD
Statutory Address 1:: GROUP OF 7 CHEST TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 15 METRES WEST OF CHURCH OF ST OSWALD, CHURCH 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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: GROUP OF 7 CHEST TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 15 METRES WEST OF CHURCH OF ST OSWALD, CHURCH STREET

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

District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Oswestry
National Grid Reference:: SJ 28837 29390

Details

SJ 2829 SE OSWESTRY C.P. CHURCH STREET (west side)

15/53 Group of 7 chest - tombs approx. 15m west of Church of St. Oswald GV II

Group of 7 chest tombs. circa 1748 to c.1827. Sandstone. Rectangular. All with moulded plinths and capping, earliest [nearest Church of St. Oswald (q.v.)] open-sided with turned corner balusters and inscription to Hannah Evanes (died 1748) and that immediately to south with square corner balusters; remainder are plainer, the latest (dated 1803 and 1827 respectively) with recessed semi-circular inscription panels.

Listing NGR: SJ2883729390

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 255523
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.