ROW OF 4 HEADSTONES APPROX 10 METRES SOUTH OF EAST END OF CHANCEL, CHURCH OF ST PETER

ROW OF 4 HEADSTONES APPROX 10 METRES SOUTH OF EAST END OF CHANCEL, CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1321638
Date first listed:: 26-Nov-1986
List Entry Name:: ROW OF 4 HEADSTONES APPROX 10 METRES SOUTH OF EAST END OF CHANCEL, CHURCH OF ST PETER
Statutory Address:: ROW OF 4 HEADSTONES APPROX 10 METRES SOUTH OF EAST END OF CHANCEL, CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1321638
Date first listed:: 26-Nov-1986
List Entry Name:: ROW OF 4 HEADSTONES APPROX 10 METRES SOUTH OF EAST END OF CHANCEL, CHURCH OF ST PETER
Statutory Address 1:: ROW OF 4 HEADSTONES APPROX 10 METRES SOUTH OF EAST END OF CHANCEL, CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH 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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Location

Statutory Address:: ROW OF 4 HEADSTONES APPROX 10 METRES SOUTH OF EAST END OF CHANCEL, CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH LANE

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

District:: Central Bedfordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Wrestlingworth and Cockayne Hatley
National Grid Reference:: TL 25936 47352

Details

WRESTLINGWORTH & CHURCH LANE TL 2593 4735 COCKAYNE HATLEY (Wrestlingworth) 15/120 Row of 4 headstones approx 10 metres S of E end of chancel, Church of St Peter GV II Loosely grouped row of 4 headstones. All are of limestone in variety of sizes. All face E. Details of individual stones as follows (N to S):

(i) J.C. 1656. Fairly small stone with large lettering. Simple carved scrollwork cresting to top.

(ii) Name illegible. 1700. Fairly deeply carved scrollwork decoration to sides and crest, that to crest foliate. Crest decoration also includes central skull and bones.

(iii) Daniel Dennis. 1709. Latin inscription. Deeply carved scrollwork to sides. Crest to top composed of putto head with outstretched wings.

(iv) H.C. 1657. Similar to (i). Fairly small stone with large lettering. Simple carved scrollwork cresting to top.

TL 2547 WRESTLINGWORTH & CHURCH LANE COCKAYNE HATLEY (Wrestlingworth) 15/121 No. 12 GV II House. C17. Colourwashed roughcast over timber frame. Thatched roof. 3- room plan, 2 storeys. Road elevation has 2 2-light casements with glazing bars to each floor. E gable end has C20 porch. 2-light casement with glazing bars to first floor. One ridge stack and one integral gable end stack, both rebuilt in C19 brick.

Listing NGR: TL2593647352

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Legacy System number:: 38489
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.