BUROUGH CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 500MM EAST OF SOUTH AISLE OF THE CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1333311
Date first listed:: 08-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:: BUROUGH CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 500MM EAST OF SOUTH AISLE OF THE CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE
Statutory Address:: BUROUGH CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 500MM EAST OF SOUTH AISLE OF THE CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1333311
Date first listed:: 08-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:: BUROUGH CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 500MM EAST OF SOUTH AISLE OF THE CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE
Statutory Address 1:: BUROUGH CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 500MM EAST OF SOUTH AISLE OF THE CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE

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:: BUROUGH CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 500MM EAST OF SOUTH AISLE OF THE CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE

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

County:: Devon
District:: East Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Southleigh
National Grid Reference:: SY 20479 93432

Details

SY 29 SW SOUTHLEIGH SOUTHLEIGH

6/132 Burough chest tomb approximately - 500mm east of south aisle of the Church of St Lawrence GV II

Chest tomb. Dated 1665 in memory of Grace Burough. Beerstone ashlar with flint rubble. The chest tomb is rectangular in plan with a soffit-moulded flat lid. Any plinth is buried. The chest is flint rubble with a rectangular Beerstone plaque on the south side which is inscribed with Roman serif capital letters and records the death of Grace Burough in 1665.

Listing NGR: SY2047993432

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Legacy System number:: 88803
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.