GROUP OF 4 CHEST TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 6 METRES TO SOUTH OF CHANCEL OF CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1308057
Date first listed:: 18-Mar-1986
List Entry Name:: GROUP OF 4 CHEST TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 6 METRES TO SOUTH OF CHANCEL OF CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY
Statutory Address:: GROUP OF 4 CHEST TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 6 METRES TO SOUTH OF CHANCEL OF CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY

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Date:: 2001-06-30
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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1308057
Date first listed:: 18-Mar-1986
List Entry Name:: GROUP OF 4 CHEST TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 6 METRES TO SOUTH OF CHANCEL OF CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY
Statutory Address 1:: GROUP OF 4 CHEST TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 6 METRES TO SOUTH OF CHANCEL OF CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY

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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Statutory Address:: GROUP OF 4 CHEST TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 6 METRES TO SOUTH OF CHANCEL OF CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY

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District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Minsterley
National Grid Reference:: SJ3741105052

Details

SJ 3605-3705 19/80

MINSTERLEY C.P. MINSTERLEY Group of 4 chest tombs approx. 6 metres to south of chancel of Church of the Holy Trinity

GV II

Group of 4 chest tombs. Early C19. Dressed grey sandstone. North-east tomb: semi-circular recessed side panels with flanking fluted pilaster strips, raised oval end panels, and moulded cornice to flat top (broken in two at time of survey - July 1985); inscribed to Thomas Green, died 1803 (5?); south-east tomb: panels with incised borders and quadrant corners, side panels with flanking incised pilaster strips and moulded cornice to chamfered top; inscribed to Mytton Skrymsheb, surgeon, died Feb. 12, 1837; north-west tomb: sarcophagus type with moulded base, panelled sides, and moulded cornice to chamfered top; inscribed to Edward Green, died Oct. 9, 1805; south-west tomb: base invisible; recessed moulded semi-circular side panels with fluted fan decoration in spandrels and flanking panelled pilaster strips, recessed square end panels, and moulded cornice to chamfered top; inscribed to John Nealor of Minsterley Hall, died May 8, 1829.

Listing NGR: SJ3741105052

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Legacy System number:: 258986
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.