MARTYN MONUMENT AT SX 407613

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1329308
Date first listed:: 23-Jan-1968
List Entry Name:: MARTYN MONUMENT AT SX 407613
Statutory Address:: MARTYN MONUMENT AT SX 407613

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1329308
Date first listed:: 23-Jan-1968
Date of most recent amendment:: 19-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:: MARTYN MONUMENT AT SX 407613
Statutory Address 1:: MARTYN MONUMENT AT SX 407613

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:: MARTYN MONUMENT AT SX 407613

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

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Botusfleming
National Grid Reference:: SX 40830 61386

Details

BOTUS FLEMING SX 46 SW 6/7 Martyn monument at SX 407613 (formerly listed as obelisk in 23.1.68 field north east of Church) II Chest tomb with obelisk. C18. Limestone with enclosure of cast iron railings. The chest tomb is square on plan and has a moulded plinth, with a flat plain lid; obelisk on chamfered plinth set on top of the tomb. On the side of the tomb is a long explanatory inscription, stating that William Martyn knew "no superstitious veneration for church or churchyard" and preferred to be buried in unconsecrated ground. To William Martyn, 1762. The tomb is set on a rubble plinth with granite coping, surmounted by cast iron railings with spike finials. Sources: Pevsner, N : Buildings of England: Cornwall 1970.

Listing NGR: SX4083061386

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Legacy System number:: 60759
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.