GROUP OF 4 CHEST TOMBS BY SOUTH WEST CORNER OF PARISH CHURCH

GROUP OF 4 CHEST TOMBS BY SOUTH WEST CORNER OF PARISH CHURCH, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1320461
Date first listed:: 19-Oct-1983
List Entry Name:: GROUP OF 4 CHEST TOMBS BY SOUTH WEST CORNER OF PARISH CHURCH
Statutory Address:: GROUP OF 4 CHEST TOMBS BY SOUTH WEST CORNER OF PARISH CHURCH, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1320461
Date first listed:: 19-Oct-1983
List Entry Name:: GROUP OF 4 CHEST TOMBS BY SOUTH WEST CORNER OF PARISH CHURCH
Statutory Address 1:: GROUP OF 4 CHEST TOMBS BY SOUTH WEST CORNER OF PARISH CHURCH, 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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Location

Statutory Address:: GROUP OF 4 CHEST TOMBS BY SOUTH WEST CORNER OF PARISH CHURCH, HIGH STREET

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

District:: Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Wellow
National Grid Reference:: ST 74176 58387

Details

ST 7458 WELLOW C.P. HIGH STREET (North side) 12/8 Group of 4 chest tombs by G.V. south-west corner of Parish Church

II

4 chest tombs. Mid - late C18th and early C19th. Ashlar. (1) 1818. Mary Pontin. Plain side panels with inscribed top. (2) 1779, Ponting family. Inscribed hexagonal and shield panels; panelled corner and central pilasters with paterae. (1) and (2) are surrounded by a low ashlar wall. (3) 17.. (illegible) probably late C18th. Inscribed shield panels; pilasters decorated with foliage, sinceau and paterae; entablature. (4) 1820, Deans and Withs. Plain with inscribed top. The chest tombs represent a good collection of classical and traditional local tomb forms and contribute to the setting of the church.

Listing NGR: ST7417658387

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Legacy System number:: 32346
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.