PAIR OF GRAVESTONES ADJOINING TO SOUTH OF NORAWAY HEADSTONE APPROXIMATELY 12 METRES SOUTH WEST OF SOUTH WEST CORNER OF WEST TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST PETER

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1317985
Date first listed:: 29-May-1986
List Entry Name:: PAIR OF GRAVESTONES ADJOINING TO SOUTH OF NORAWAY HEADSTONE APPROXIMATELY 12 METRES SOUTH WEST OF SOUTH WEST CORNER OF WEST TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST PETER
Statutory Address:: PAIR OF GRAVESTONES ADJOINING TO SOUTH OF NORAWAY HEADSTONE APPROXIMATELY 12 METRES SOUTH WEST OF SOUTH WEST CORNER OF WEST TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST PETER

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1317985
Date first listed:: 29-May-1986
List Entry Name:: PAIR OF GRAVESTONES ADJOINING TO SOUTH OF NORAWAY HEADSTONE APPROXIMATELY 12 METRES SOUTH WEST OF SOUTH WEST CORNER OF WEST TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST PETER
Statutory Address 1:: PAIR OF GRAVESTONES ADJOINING TO SOUTH OF NORAWAY HEADSTONE APPROXIMATELY 12 METRES SOUTH WEST OF SOUTH WEST CORNER OF WEST TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST PETER

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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:: PAIR OF GRAVESTONES ADJOINING TO SOUTH OF NORAWAY HEADSTONE APPROXIMATELY 12 METRES SOUTH WEST OF SOUTH WEST CORNER OF WEST TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST PETER

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

County:: Devon
District:: North Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Westleigh
National Grid Reference:: SS 47234 28634

Details

WESTLEIGH WESTLEIGH SS 42 NE 3/136 Pair of gravestone adjoining to south of Noraway headstone approximately 12 metres south- west of south-west corner of west tower of Church of St Peter GV II Pair of gavestones backing onto each other. Early C19. Slate straight-headed. The stone facing east records death of John Fry 1807, aged 45. The stone facing west, possibly reset from the foot of the grave, reads 'God took me of all in my prime I could not longer stay And laid me up until his time In my cold bed of cley. Weep not for me my friends that be Nor wife and children kind When God thinks fit we must submit Unto his Holy mind.'

Listing NGR: SS4723528636

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Legacy System number:: 98860
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.