GEORGE PARKER BIDDER MONUMENT ABOUT 5 METRES SOUTH OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST. PETER

GEORGE PARKER BIDDER MONUMENT ABOUT 5 METRES SOUTH OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST. PETER, CHURCH ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1325164
Date first listed:: 25-Mar-1991
List Entry Name:: GEORGE PARKER BIDDER MONUMENT ABOUT 5 METRES SOUTH OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST. PETER
Statutory Address:: GEORGE PARKER BIDDER MONUMENT ABOUT 5 METRES SOUTH OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST. PETER, CHURCH ROAD

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Date:: 2001-10-30
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1325164
Date first listed:: 25-Mar-1991
List Entry Name:: GEORGE PARKER BIDDER MONUMENT ABOUT 5 METRES SOUTH OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST. PETER
Statutory Address 1:: GEORGE PARKER BIDDER MONUMENT ABOUT 5 METRES SOUTH OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST. PETER, CHURCH ROAD

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:: GEORGE PARKER BIDDER MONUMENT ABOUT 5 METRES SOUTH OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST. PETER, CHURCH ROAD

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

County:: Devon
District:: South Hams (District Authority)
Parish:: Stoke Fleming
National Grid Reference:: SX 86186 48292

Details

STOKE FLEMING CHURCH ROAD SX84NE STOKE FLEMING. 6/155 George Parker Bidder Monument about 5 metres South of tower of Church of St. Peter

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Churchyard monument. Circa 1878. Granite monolith in form of an early medieval cross with short arms on a round head and with roll-moulded arrises. Stepped granite plinth with lead inscription in upper case lettering:- In memory of George Parker Bidder, born June 14th 1806, died September 20th 1878. George Parker Bidder was born in Moretonhampstead but lived at Stoke House in Stoke Fleming. He was an infant prodigy, civil engineer and mathematician. He was associated with Robert Stephenson in the London and Birmingham railway project (1834); he helped to found the Electric Telegraph Company, constructed the Victoria Docks in London and was president of the Devonshire Association. Source: W.G. Hoskins, Devon, page 440. Whites Directory 1878. B.F. Cresswell, NOTES ON DEVON CHURCHES, Deanery of Ipplepen, 1903.

Listing NGR: SX8618648292

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Legacy System number:: 99940
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Cresswell, B F, Notes on Devon Churches of the Deanery of Ipplepen, (1903)
White, , Devon, (1839)
Hoskins, W G, 'A New Survey of England' in Devon, (1972), 440

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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.