GRAVESTONE TO EDWARD CAPERN, APPROXIMATELY 12 METRES SOUTH OF EAST END OF HEANTON PUNCHARDON CHURCH

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1309546
Date first listed:: 14-Nov-1985
List Entry Name:: GRAVESTONE TO EDWARD CAPERN, APPROXIMATELY 12 METRES SOUTH OF EAST END OF HEANTON PUNCHARDON CHURCH
Statutory Address:: GRAVESTONE TO EDWARD CAPERN, APPROXIMATELY 12 METRES SOUTH OF EAST END OF HEANTON PUNCHARDON CHURCH

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1309546
Date first listed:: 14-Nov-1985
List Entry Name:: GRAVESTONE TO EDWARD CAPERN, APPROXIMATELY 12 METRES SOUTH OF EAST END OF HEANTON PUNCHARDON CHURCH
Statutory Address 1:: GRAVESTONE TO EDWARD CAPERN, APPROXIMATELY 12 METRES SOUTH OF EAST END OF HEANTON PUNCHARDON CHURCH

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:: GRAVESTONE TO EDWARD CAPERN, APPROXIMATELY 12 METRES SOUTH OF EAST END OF HEANTON PUNCHARDON CHURCH

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County:: Devon
District:: North Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Heanton Punchardon
National Grid Reference:: SS 50232 35566

Details

SS 53 NW HEANTON PUNCHARDON HEANTON PUNCHARDON

8/187 Gravestone to Edward Capern, - approximately 12 metres south of East End of Heanton Punchardon Church GV II

Gravestone to Edward Capern, died 1894. Stone, triangulated head with short projecting arms, curved on the underside. Inscription to Edward Capern. The Postman Poet (born Tiverton 1819, died Braunton 1894) with verse by Alfred Austin, the Poet Laureate. Also to Jane Capern, wife of Edward (died 1894) with verse by Capern: "I'd be remembered for some word I said Some thought immortal, winged with passing breath; But more for one true tender-hearted deed Since such sweet things the world doth sorely need." Above inscription is a small recess with cusped head containing Capern's postman's bell of metal with wooden handle, but no clapper.

Listing NGR: SS5023235566

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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.