SWEETING AND NORTH FAMILY CHEST TOMB IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 10 METRES SOUTH OF SOUTH AISLE, CHURCH OF ST MARY

SWEETING AND NORTH FAMILY CHEST TOMB IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 10 METRES SOUTH OF SOUTH AISLE, CHURCH OF ST MARY, HIGH STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1345643
Date first listed:: 21-Dec-1984
List Entry Name:: SWEETING AND NORTH FAMILY CHEST TOMB IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 10 METRES SOUTH OF SOUTH AISLE, CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address:: SWEETING AND NORTH FAMILY CHEST TOMB IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 10 METRES SOUTH OF SOUTH AISLE, CHURCH OF ST MARY, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1345643
Date first listed:: 21-Dec-1984
List Entry Name:: SWEETING AND NORTH FAMILY CHEST TOMB IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 10 METRES SOUTH OF SOUTH AISLE, CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address 1:: SWEETING AND NORTH FAMILY CHEST TOMB IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 10 METRES SOUTH OF SOUTH AISLE, CHURCH OF ST MARY, HIGH 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:: SWEETING AND NORTH FAMILY CHEST TOMB IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 10 METRES SOUTH OF SOUTH AISLE, CHURCH OF ST MARY, HIGH STREET

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Stogumber
National Grid Reference:: ST0981537270

Details

ST0937 11/165

STOGUMBER CP HIGH STREET (South side) Sweeting and North family chest tomb in churchyard, about 10m South of South aisle, Church of St Mary

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Chest tomb. Mid C18. Doulting ashlar. Ledger topped, moulded cornice, astragal frieze, moulded architrave, moulded plinth, East and West ends curved out under moulded frieze, returned a short distance on North and South faces which are inscribed to Hugh Sweeting died 1789, Anne his wife died 1779 and Anne North their daughter died 1750. An unusual design. (Record of Churchyard Graves compiled by the Womens Institute, Stogumber).

Listing NGR: ST0981537270

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Legacy System number:: 264928
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.