UNIDENTIFIED MONUMENT CIRCA 4 METRES WEST OF CHAFYN GROVE MEMORIAL IN THE CHURCHYARD OF THE CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL

UNIDENTIFIED MONUMENT CIRCA 4 METRES WEST OF CHAFYN GROVE MEMORIAL IN THE CHURCHYARD OF THE CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1318657
Date first listed:: 07-Jul-1989
List Entry Name:: UNIDENTIFIED MONUMENT CIRCA 4 METRES WEST OF CHAFYN GROVE MEMORIAL IN THE CHURCHYARD OF THE CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
Statutory Address:: UNIDENTIFIED MONUMENT CIRCA 4 METRES WEST OF CHAFYN GROVE MEMORIAL IN THE CHURCHYARD OF THE CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1318657
Date first listed:: 07-Jul-1989
List Entry Name:: UNIDENTIFIED MONUMENT CIRCA 4 METRES WEST OF CHAFYN GROVE MEMORIAL IN THE CHURCHYARD OF THE CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
Statutory Address 1:: UNIDENTIFIED MONUMENT CIRCA 4 METRES WEST OF CHAFYN GROVE MEMORIAL IN THE CHURCHYARD OF THE CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, CHURCH STREET

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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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Location

Statutory Address:: UNIDENTIFIED MONUMENT CIRCA 4 METRES WEST OF CHAFYN GROVE MEMORIAL IN THE CHURCHYARD OF THE CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, CHURCH STREET

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

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Mere
National Grid Reference:: ST 81110 32285

Details

ST 8032-8132 MERE CHURCH STREET (south side) 6/42 Unidentified monument c.4 m west of Chafyn-Grove memorial in the churchyard of the Church of St Michael

GV II

Chest tomb. 1700. Limestone. Chest tomb with deep flat ledger stone to cavetto mould to plain chest, but south side has panel with moulded top edge carrying a bold inscription in lower case, partly legible, thus:

'Thinke on mee as you pass by As you are now so once was I But now I lye d....h.d to dust hoping to rise among the just'

These are sentiments expressed in varying ways on monuments since the early C12.

Listing NGR: ST8111032285

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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.