SAMPSON HEADSTONE APPROXIMATELY 2 METRES SOUTH-EAST OF VESTRY OF CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1308387
Date first listed:: 16-Sep-1987
List Entry Name:: SAMPSON HEADSTONE APPROXIMATELY 2 METRES SOUTH-EAST OF VESTRY OF CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY
Statutory Address:: SAMPSON HEADSTONE APPROXIMATELY 2 METRES SOUTH-EAST OF VESTRY OF CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1308387
Date first listed:: 16-Sep-1987
List Entry Name:: SAMPSON HEADSTONE APPROXIMATELY 2 METRES SOUTH-EAST OF VESTRY OF CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY
Statutory Address 1:: SAMPSON HEADSTONE APPROXIMATELY 2 METRES SOUTH-EAST OF VESTRY OF CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY

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:: SAMPSON HEADSTONE APPROXIMATELY 2 METRES SOUTH-EAST OF VESTRY OF CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY

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

County:: Devon
District:: West Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Gidleigh
National Park:: DARTMOOR
National Grid Reference:: SX 67072 88375

Details

SX 68 NE GIDLEIGH

3/196 Sampson headstone approximately - 2 metres south-east of vestry of Church of The Holy Trinity GV II

Headstone erected 1940 in memory of William and Eva Sampson reusing a probably C15 cross. Granite. On an inscribed square socket stone a complete medieval cross has been erected. It is a plain Latin cross standing approximately 1.5m high with a tapering shaft. The corners are chamfered and it has pyramid stops. The socket stone records the death of William Sampson in 1940 and his wife Eva in 1934. They lived at Greenaway Farm from where the cross was formerly located.

Listing NGR: SX6706788370

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Legacy System number:: 94726
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.