MEMORIAL TO JOHNATHAN COUCH IN COUCH BURIAL GROUND 30 METRES TO WEST OF CHY CHAPEL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1329034
Date first listed:: 26-Mar-1986
List Entry Name:: MEMORIAL TO JOHNATHAN COUCH IN COUCH BURIAL GROUND 30 METRES TO WEST OF CHY CHAPEL
Statutory Address:: MEMORIAL TO JOHNATHAN COUCH IN COUCH BURIAL GROUND 30 METRES TO WEST OF CHY CHAPEL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1329034
Date first listed:: 26-Mar-1986
List Entry Name:: MEMORIAL TO JOHNATHAN COUCH IN COUCH BURIAL GROUND 30 METRES TO WEST OF CHY CHAPEL
Statutory Address 1:: MEMORIAL TO JOHNATHAN COUCH IN COUCH BURIAL GROUND 30 METRES TO WEST OF CHY CHAPEL

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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Statutory Address:: MEMORIAL TO JOHNATHAN COUCH IN COUCH BURIAL GROUND 30 METRES TO WEST OF CHY CHAPEL

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District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Polperro
National Grid Reference:: SX1776252199

Details

LANSALLOS SX 15 SE 3/7 Memorial to Jonathan Couch in burial ground 30m to west of Chy Chapel II

Churchyard memorial. 1870. In memory of Jonathan Couch FLS and also wife, Jane Quiller who died in 1857. Granite obelisk on tall plinth with moulded cornice and square base. Jonathan Couch (1789-1870), celebrated Cornish naturalist, doctor, apothecary, classical scholar, zoologist, botanist, itchthyologist and archaeologist. Contributed much to scientific knowledge in the C19 publishing works which included; Cornish Fauna, 1838, The History of the Fishes of the British Isles 4 vols, 1862-1865 and a Calendar of Natural History observed at Polperro 1842. In 1871 his son, Thomas Quiller Couch published his father's notes on The History of Polperro. See also Couch's House, Lansallos Street, Polperro. Couch, Bertha The life of Jonathan Couch 1891 Couch, J The History of Polperro 1871 de Burlet, S Portrait of Polperro 1977 Lanyon, A The Rooks of Trelawne 1976

Listing NGR: SX1776252199

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Legacy System number:: 61471
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.