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-Sep-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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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1328565
Date first listed:: 09-Sep-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

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:: 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

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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.