TOMB OF FOUNTAINE FAMILY IN CHURCHYARD

TOMB OF FOUNTAINE FAMILY IN CHURCHYARD, SCHOOL LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1320177
Date first listed:: 06-Jul-1984
List Entry Name:: TOMB OF FOUNTAINE FAMILY IN CHURCHYARD
Statutory Address:: TOMB OF FOUNTAINE FAMILY IN CHURCHYARD, SCHOOL LANE

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Date:: 2000-09-11
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1320177
Date first listed:: 06-Jul-1984
List Entry Name:: TOMB OF FOUNTAINE FAMILY IN CHURCHYARD
Statutory Address 1:: TOMB OF FOUNTAINE FAMILY IN CHURCHYARD, SCHOOL LANE

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:: TOMB OF FOUNTAINE FAMILY IN CHURCHYARD, SCHOOL LANE

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

District:: Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Stoke Hammond
National Grid Reference:: SP 87945 29760

Details

SP 82 NE STOKE HAMMOND SCHOOL LANE

3/78 Tomb of Fountaine family in churchyard.

GV II

Tomb to members of the Fountaine family. Early C19. Stone. A rectangular block with inscription panel on each side and corner recesses with Doric columns. Moulded base and flat cornice top with urn. Earliest inscriptions are to Ann Fountaine, d. 1802, and Bernard Fountaine, d. 1811? Other inscriptions are of 1811, 1870 and 1905. Surround of elegant wrought iron railings with interlace ornament, scrolled spearhead finials and fluted corner shafts with urn finials.

Listing NGR: SP8794529760

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Legacy System number:: 350820
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.