LUXTON HEADSTONE APPROXIMATELY 12 METRES SOUTH OF SOUTH AISLE OF CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1325806
Date first listed:: 15-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:: LUXTON HEADSTONE APPROXIMATELY 12 METRES SOUTH OF SOUTH AISLE OF CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW
Statutory Address:: LUXTON HEADSTONE APPROXIMATELY 12 METRES SOUTH OF SOUTH AISLE OF CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1325806
Date first listed:: 15-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:: LUXTON HEADSTONE APPROXIMATELY 12 METRES SOUTH OF SOUTH AISLE OF CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW
Statutory Address 1:: LUXTON HEADSTONE APPROXIMATELY 12 METRES SOUTH OF SOUTH AISLE OF CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW

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:: LUXTON HEADSTONE APPROXIMATELY 12 METRES SOUTH OF SOUTH AISLE OF CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW

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

County:: Devon
District:: Mid Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Coldridge
National Grid Reference:: SS 69841 07634

Details

COLDRIDGE COLDRIDGE SS 60 NE 1/25 Luxton headstone approximately - 12 metres south of south aisle of Church of St Matthew GV II

Headstone. Early C19 in memory of Elizabeth Luxton. Upright square-headed slab standing approximately 0.8 metres high. The front is arranged to produce a nowy- headed plaque with the first word 'Sacred' in ornate Gothic lettering and continued in upper and lower case Roman serif recording the death of Elizabeth Luxton in 1789. The shallow bas-relief frame is enriched with floriate decoration with a Biblical quote around the top. The stone is covered in lichen and is signed but all that can be read is.........of Winkleigh.

Listing NGR: SS6983907636

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Legacy System number:: 95577
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.