Manning Chest Tomb About 17 Metres South of the Chancel of the Church of St Morwenna
MANNING CHEST TOMB ABOUT 17 METRES SOUTH OF THE CHANCEL OF THE CHURCH OF ST MORWENNA
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1328565
- Date first listed:
- 09-Sept-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Manning Chest Tomb About 17 Metres South of the Chancel of the Church of St Morwenna
- Statutory Address:
- MANNING CHEST TOMB ABOUT 17 METRES SOUTH OF THE CHANCEL OF THE CHURCH OF ST MORWENNA
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1328565
- Date first listed:
- 09-Sept-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Manning Chest Tomb About 17 Metres South of the Chancel of the Church of St Morwenna
- Statutory Address 1:
- MANNING CHEST TOMB ABOUT 17 METRES SOUTH OF THE CHANCEL OF THE CHURCH OF ST MORWENNA
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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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- MANNING CHEST TOMB ABOUT 17 METRES SOUTH OF THE CHANCEL OF THE CHURCH OF ST MORWENNA
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Morwenstow
- National Grid Reference:
- SS2051415288
Details
SS 21 NW
1/103
MORWENSTOW,
MORWENSTOW
Manning Chest Tomb about 17 metres south of the chancel of the Church of St Morwenna
GV II*
Chest tomb. Early C17, commemorating John Manning, died 1601. Granite. Narrow
chest tomb raised on moulded granite step on rectangular granite base. Renaissance
style. Chest has chamfered plinth and granite corner shafts on bulbous feet, cyma
recta moulded granite lid. Inscription in large capitals without serifs is carved
in relief on side panels and reads across the panels: "Here liet John Manning of
Stamberie Gen(t) who died without issue the VI day of August 1601". The initials
of John Manning and his wife appear at Stanbury Manor (q.v.). The Manning tomb is
illustrated in the Hawker memorial window in the church (q.v.) The Reverend R S
Hawker (q.v. vicarage and church), poet, antiquary and vicar of Morwenstow 1835-
1874, constructed a typically dramatic story about the tomb which he presented as
fact in Footprints of Former Men in Far Cornwall (1870).
Listing NGR: SS2051415288
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 64908
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hawker, R S, Footprints of Former Men in Far Cornwall, (1870)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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