The Tomb of Sir Oliver Style in the Church of Saint John the Baptist Churchyard
THE TOMB OF SIR OLIVER STYLE IN THE CHURCH OF SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST CHURCHYARD, TONBRIDGE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1320027
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Tomb of Sir Oliver Style in the Church of Saint John the Baptist Churchyard
- Statutory Address:
- THE TOMB OF SIR OLIVER STYLE IN THE CHURCH OF SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST CHURCHYARD, TONBRIDGE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1320027
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1985
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 12-Apr-2000
- List Entry Name:
- The Tomb of Sir Oliver Style in the Church of Saint John the Baptist Churchyard
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE TOMB OF SIR OLIVER STYLE IN THE CHURCH OF SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST CHURCHYARD, TONBRIDGE ROAD
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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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE TOMB OF SIR OLIVER STYLE IN THE CHURCH OF SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST CHURCHYARD, TONBRIDGE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tonbridge and Malling (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wateringbury
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 68539 53645
Details
TQ 65 SE WATERINGBURY TONBRIDGE ROAD
(North side)
441/2/10001
The Tomb of Sir Oliver Style
In the Church of Saint John
19.04.1985 The Baptist Churchyard
II*
Chest tomb. Circa 1702. To Sir Oliver Style, 3rd baronet d.1702, masons probably the Stantons who had been employed by the Styles for their monuments at Beckenham. Square Portland stone chest tomb with cornice and plinth and projecting angle pilasters, set within wrought iron railings; centre of chest surmounted with a gadrooned, fluted urn with tapering stem on square base standing on a pyramidal plinth bearing a relief of the Style arms on each face; similar urns placed over projecting corners. (At time of inspection four of the urns had toppled.) There are square fielded panels with border to each side of the chest, the north and south sides with Latin inscription, partly decayed; fielded panels to each side of pilasters. Wrought iron railings with elaborate central scrollwork panels on stone base. An unusually early opulent churchyard monument.
[Pevsner BOE West Kent and the Weald p593.]
Listing NGR: TQ6852753603
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 178938
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Newman, J, The Buildings of England: West Kent and the Weald, (1969), 593
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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