FOUR PURY MONUMENTS, IN THE CHURCHYARD, BETWEEN 1 AND 3 1/2 METRES EAST OF SOUTH EAST CORNER OF NAVE, CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1341898
Date first listed:: 18-Oct-1985
List Entry Name:: FOUR PURY MONUMENTS, IN THE CHURCHYARD, BETWEEN 1 AND 3 1/2 METRES EAST OF SOUTH EAST CORNER OF NAVE, CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE
Statutory Address:: FOUR PURY MONUMENTS, IN THE CHURCHYARD, BETWEEN 1 AND 3 1/2 METRES EAST OF SOUTH EAST CORNER OF NAVE, CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1341898
Date first listed:: 18-Oct-1985
List Entry Name:: FOUR PURY MONUMENTS, IN THE CHURCHYARD, BETWEEN 1 AND 3 1/2 METRES EAST OF SOUTH EAST CORNER OF NAVE, CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE
Statutory Address 1:: FOUR PURY MONUMENTS, IN THE CHURCHYARD, BETWEEN 1 AND 3 1/2 METRES EAST OF SOUTH EAST CORNER OF NAVE, CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE

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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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Statutory Address:: FOUR PURY MONUMENTS, IN THE CHURCHYARD, BETWEEN 1 AND 3 1/2 METRES EAST OF SOUTH EAST CORNER OF NAVE, CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE

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County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Forest of Dean (District Authority)
Parish:: Taynton
National Grid Reference:: SO 73737 22143

Details

SO 72 SW TAYNTON -

7/232 Four Pury monuments, in the churchyard, between 1 and 3.5m east of south-east corner of nave, Church of St. Lawrence

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Four chest tombs: late C17, possibly early C18. Stone. North- west monument, Thomas Pury, died 1688: flat lid, moulded edge, plain sides, inset slate plaque on west with lettering; south end raised oval in sunk rectangle, north Pury coat of arms on inset stone. To east, inscription weathered off; flat lid, moulded edge, no details left on sides or south end, Pury coat of arms on north, south-west monument, flat lid, moulded edge, sunk rectangle on west face, framed scrolls at ends, with plain margin outside from returns of end panels. Sunk rectangle to north, Pury coat of arms to south. Fourth monument set against third, to east: flat lid, moulded edge, ends as third, east side latin Inscription, to Thomas Pury, no date legible. One monument probably to Thomas Pury who built church (q.v.): family lived at The Grove in same parish (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SO7373722143

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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.