LANDER CHEST TOMB AT APPROX 15M SOUTH OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF SAINT MAUGAN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1328598
Date first listed:: 22-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:: LANDER CHEST TOMB AT APPROX 15M SOUTH OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF SAINT MAUGAN
Statutory Address:: LANDER CHEST TOMB AT APPROX 15M SOUTH OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF SAINT MAUGAN

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1328598
Date first listed:: 22-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:: LANDER CHEST TOMB AT APPROX 15M SOUTH OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF SAINT MAUGAN
Statutory Address 1:: LANDER CHEST TOMB AT APPROX 15M SOUTH OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF SAINT MAUGAN

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:: LANDER CHEST TOMB AT APPROX 15M SOUTH OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF SAINT MAUGAN

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

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Mawgan-in-Meneage
National Grid Reference:: SW7094425079

Details

SW 72 NW 1/154

MAWGAN-IN-MENEAGE MAWGAN Lander chest tomb at approx 15m south of tower of Church of Saint Maugan

GV II

Chest tomb monument. 1842 to James Lander of Belmont Lodge. Dressed marble sarcophagus casket over rectangular-on-plan freestone chest, all resting on flat stone slab. The base chest has plinth, panelled sides and moulded top. The tapered casket stands above this on 4 ball feet, the sides have raised and fielded trapezium shaped panels. The lid has roll moulded border, corner acroteria and shallow stepped pyramid. Incised inscription to south panel: This monument was erected at the expense of Mrs. Ann Ingersoll the widow of Lieut. Joseph Lander Gent as a memorial of Esteem and Respect for her Relative James Lander, Gent whose property she and her family succeeded in retaining after an expensive law suit promoted by his distant relatives but which by a sentence of the judge of the court was proved to be groundless and fallacious. Another inscription to north pane: James Lauder Gent died 1842 aged 64. Also Mrs Eliz. Ann Armfield his niece who became the sole possessor of his property, died 1842 aged 38.

Listing NGR: SW7094425079

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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.