BLISS AND TWO UNIDENTIFIED MONUMENTS CIRCA 17 METRES EAST OF CHANCEL IN CHURCHYARD OF THE CHURCH OF ST MARY

BLISS AND TWO UNIDENTIFIED MONUMENTS CIRCA 17 METRES EAST OF CHANCEL IN CHURCHYARD OF THE CHURCH OF ST MARY, NEW STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1340544
Date first listed:: 24-Aug-1990
List Entry Name:: BLISS AND TWO UNIDENTIFIED MONUMENTS CIRCA 17 METRES EAST OF CHANCEL IN CHURCHYARD OF THE CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address:: BLISS AND TWO UNIDENTIFIED MONUMENTS CIRCA 17 METRES EAST OF CHANCEL IN CHURCHYARD OF THE CHURCH OF ST MARY, NEW STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1340544
Date first listed:: 24-Aug-1990
List Entry Name:: BLISS AND TWO UNIDENTIFIED MONUMENTS CIRCA 17 METRES EAST OF CHANCEL IN CHURCHYARD OF THE CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address 1:: BLISS AND TWO UNIDENTIFIED MONUMENTS CIRCA 17 METRES EAST OF CHANCEL IN CHURCHYARD OF THE CHURCH OF ST MARY, NEW STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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:: BLISS AND TWO UNIDENTIFIED MONUMENTS CIRCA 17 METRES EAST OF CHANCEL IN CHURCHYARD OF THE CHURCH OF ST MARY, NEW STREET

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

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Stroud (District Authority)
Parish:: Painswick
National Grid Reference:: SO 86701 09645

Details

PAINSWICK NEW STREET SO 8609 (part) (south east side) 9/222 Bliss and two unidentified monuments c.17 m east of chancel in churchyard of the Church of St Mary

II GV Chest tomb, one headstone and one footstone. Late C17 and early C18. Lime- stone.

(a) Chest tomb, thick flat table to moulded edge, lyre ends, north sunk bolec- tion moulded edge panel with drapes, south with bolection mould panel, flared base. Inscriptions not legible, but 1879 survey gives Thomas Bliss, 1714, which is appropriate to the design.

(b) East-facing headstone, C18, angel head and drapes.

(c) Footstone with deep-set panel in heavy surround, late C17. Lies c.3 m south-west of (a).

Listing NGR: SO8670209644

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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.