ANONYMOUS TOMB TO SOUTH WEST OF WEST CORNER OF NAVE OF PARISH CHURCH OF ST LAUD

ANONYMOUS TOMB TO SOUTH WEST OF WEST CORNER OF NAVE OF PARISH CHURCH OF ST LAUD, CHURCH END

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1320181
Date first listed:: 27-Feb-1984
List Entry Name:: ANONYMOUS TOMB TO SOUTH WEST OF WEST CORNER OF NAVE OF PARISH CHURCH OF ST LAUD
Statutory Address:: ANONYMOUS TOMB TO SOUTH WEST OF WEST CORNER OF NAVE OF PARISH CHURCH OF ST LAUD, CHURCH END

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Date:: 1999-09-16
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1320181
Date first listed:: 27-Feb-1984
List Entry Name:: ANONYMOUS TOMB TO SOUTH WEST OF WEST CORNER OF NAVE OF PARISH CHURCH OF ST LAUD
Statutory Address 1:: ANONYMOUS TOMB TO SOUTH WEST OF WEST CORNER OF NAVE OF PARISH CHURCH OF ST LAUD, CHURCH END

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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Location

Statutory Address:: ANONYMOUS TOMB TO SOUTH WEST OF WEST CORNER OF NAVE OF PARISH CHURCH OF ST LAUD, CHURCH END

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

District:: Milton Keynes (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Sherington
National Grid Reference:: SP 88993 46767

Details

SP 88 46 SIiBRINGTON CHURCH END

11/143

- Anonymous tomb to south-west of west corner of nave of Parish Church of St.Laud.

GV II

Tomb c1850. In red sandstone with limestone inscription slabs. About 8 feet high in two stages rising from plain plinth, upper stage diminished. Sandstone frames to recessed panels. Then covered cornice to top. The tomb is a curiosity in that it is deliberately anonymous, 3 sides having biblical texts, the east inscription starting "READER: The Name, Profession and Age of him whose body lies within are of little importance..." The inscription slabs are on the upper stage.

Listing NGR: SP8899346767

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Legacy System number:: 351049
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.