TOMBSTONES SOUTH OF SOUTH PORCH

TOMBSTONES SOUTH OF SOUTH PORCH, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1331750
Date first listed:: 31-Jan-1984
List Entry Name:: TOMBSTONES SOUTH OF SOUTH PORCH
Statutory Address:: TOMBSTONES SOUTH OF SOUTH PORCH, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1331750
Date first listed:: 31-Jan-1984
List Entry Name:: TOMBSTONES SOUTH OF SOUTH PORCH
Statutory Address 1:: TOMBSTONES SOUTH OF SOUTH PORCH, HIGH STREET

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:: TOMBSTONES SOUTH OF SOUTH PORCH, HIGH STREET

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

County:: Cambridgeshire
District:: East Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Burwell
National Grid Reference:: TL 58933 66096

Details

TL 5866 TL 5966 BURWELL HIGH STREET (West Side)

15/22A 16/22A Tombstones south of south porch

II

Three C17 head stones on north side of path leading to and twenty-five yards from north porch with indecipherable inscriptions.

( i) Skull and cross-bones with cenral cherub and swags. ( ii) Cross bones with hour glass surmounted by winged skull. (iii) Large rectangular hole with inscription above.

Group of three chosen from twenty-two headstones of C17 and C18 some of which are illustrated in RCHM North-East Cambs.

Listing NGR: TL5893366096

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Legacy System number:: 48939
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Cambridgeshire North East, (1972)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.