TAYLOR MONUMENT IN THE CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 11 METRES SOUTH OF THE TOWER, CHURCH OF ST MARY

TAYLOR MONUMENT IN THE CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 11 METRES SOUTH OF THE TOWER, CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1341913
Date first listed:: 18-Oct-1985
List Entry Name:: TAYLOR MONUMENT IN THE CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 11 METRES SOUTH OF THE TOWER, CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address:: TAYLOR MONUMENT IN THE CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 11 METRES SOUTH OF THE TOWER, CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1341913
Date first listed:: 18-Oct-1985
List Entry Name:: TAYLOR MONUMENT IN THE CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 11 METRES SOUTH OF THE TOWER, CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address 1:: TAYLOR MONUMENT IN THE CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 11 METRES SOUTH OF THE TOWER, CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH 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:: TAYLOR MONUMENT IN THE CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 11 METRES SOUTH OF THE TOWER, CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH STREET

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

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Forest of Dean (District Authority)
Parish:: Newent
National Grid Reference:: SO 72346 25922

Details

SO 7225-7325 NEWENT CHURCH STREET (north side)

13/114 Taylor monument in the churchyard, about 11m south of the Tower, Church of St. Mary

GV II

Chest tomb; 1721 to Edward Taylor; stone, brick plinth. Flat lid with margin and scrolls in corners on top, plain chamfer to underside; plain sides framed by thick, plain ends. All on a low, brick plinth, built up at one end above path. Inscription all on lid, lettering well cut and preserved, long 's' in first part. Later inscriptions to 1764. First is to carpenter who designed and executed the wide span roof to the nave of the church (q.v.). (H.M.Colvin, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600-1840, 1978).

Listing NGR: SO7234525922

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Legacy System number:: 125646
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, (1978)

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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.