Day Monument
Churchyard of St Peter, Rodmarton, Gloucestershire
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1341400
- Date first listed:
- 27-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Day Monument
- Statutory Address:
- Churchyard of St Peter, Rodmarton, Gloucestershire
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1341400
- Date first listed:
- 27-Feb-1986
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Dec-2017
- List Entry Name:
- Day Monument
- Statutory Address 1:
- Churchyard of St Peter, Rodmarton, Gloucestershire
- Statutory Address 2:
- Churchyard of St Peter, Rodmarton, Gloucestershire, GL7 6PE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Churchyard of St Peter, Rodmarton, Gloucestershire
- Statutory Address:
- Churchyard of St Peter, Rodmarton, Gloucestershire, GL7 6PE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Cotswold (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Rodmarton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST9429298045
Summary
The chest tomb of the Day family of Rodmarton, of late-C18 or early-C19 date.
Reasons for Designation
The Day Monument, Churchyard of St Peter, Rodmarton is listed at Grade II, for the following principal reasons:
Architectural interest:
* for the original design of the tomb and its inscriptions, using high quality materials and craftsmanship.
Historic interest:
* it is a significant example of a late-C18 or early-C19 family chest tomb.
Group value:
* it forms an archetypal group of C18/C19 funerary monuments in the churchyard, many of which are listed at Grade II, that help form the historic backdrop to the Church of St Peter (Grade I).
History
This chest tomb is of late-C18/early-C19 date and retains inscriptions in the memory of a number of different members of the Day family. It was restored in the early C21.
Details
A chest tomb of late-C18/early-C19 date.
MATERIALS: constructed of limestone.
DESCRIPTION: the chest tomb is rectangular on plan with a moulded plinth and capping, and stands on a formerly railed base with limestone flags. It has a hipped limestone lid. The north and south sides have fluted Doric columns to each corner and the north (church) side has a carved oval table with floreate design in the spandrels and is inscribed to the memory of Anna Maria Day who died in 1831 and her sister Sarah Day who died in 1860. The end faces are inscribed with dedications to other members of the Day family. The south face panel is spalled and has no inscription.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 129438
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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