CIRCULAR MONUMENT IN THE CHURCHYARD ABOUT 8 METRES NORTH OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST PETER

CIRCULAR MONUMENT IN THE CHURCHYARD ABOUT 8 METRES NORTH OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST PETER, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1318470
Date first listed:: 09-Sep-1987
List Entry Name:: CIRCULAR MONUMENT IN THE CHURCHYARD ABOUT 8 METRES NORTH OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST PETER
Statutory Address:: CIRCULAR MONUMENT IN THE CHURCHYARD ABOUT 8 METRES NORTH OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST PETER, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1318470
Date first listed:: 09-Sep-1987
List Entry Name:: CIRCULAR MONUMENT IN THE CHURCHYARD ABOUT 8 METRES NORTH OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST PETER
Statutory Address 1:: CIRCULAR MONUMENT IN THE CHURCHYARD ABOUT 8 METRES NORTH OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST PETER, HIGH 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:: CIRCULAR MONUMENT IN THE CHURCHYARD ABOUT 8 METRES NORTH OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST PETER, HIGH STREET

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

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Stourton with Gasper
National Grid Reference:: ST 77606 33943

Details

STOURTON WITH GASPER HIGH STREET ST 73 SE (south side) 6/140 Circular monument in the churchyard about 8 metres north of tower of Church of St Peter GV II Monument or seat. Early C19. Limestone. Circular slightly weathered top on ten moulded ogee arches, approximately 1.5 metres diameter. The purpose of this is unknown, but it was possibly a seat and erected for Richard Colt Hoare, the work done by John Carter; ogee arches very similar to these were added to the Gothic Cottage (q.v.), for a seat by John Carter in 1806. (K. Woodbridge, The Stourhead Landscape, 1982)

Listing NGR: ST7760633943

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 321246
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Woodbridge, K , The Stourhead Landscape, (1982)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 46 Wiltshire,

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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.