FOUR HEADSTONES TO THE SHURT FAMILY SET IN STONE SURROUND, IN CHURCHYARD ABOUT 15 METRES SOUTH OF PORCH, CHURCH OF ST MARY

FOUR HEADSTONES TO THE SHURT FAMILY SET IN STONE SURROUND, IN CHURCHYARD ABOUT 15 METRES SOUTH OF PORCH, CHURCH OF ST MARY, SEA LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1345710
Date first listed:: 16-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:: FOUR HEADSTONES TO THE SHURT FAMILY SET IN STONE SURROUND, IN CHURCHYARD ABOUT 15 METRES SOUTH OF PORCH, CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address:: FOUR HEADSTONES TO THE SHURT FAMILY SET IN STONE SURROUND, IN CHURCHYARD ABOUT 15 METRES SOUTH OF PORCH, CHURCH OF ST MARY, SEA LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1345710
Date first listed:: 16-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:: FOUR HEADSTONES TO THE SHURT FAMILY SET IN STONE SURROUND, IN CHURCHYARD ABOUT 15 METRES SOUTH OF PORCH, CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address 1:: FOUR HEADSTONES TO THE SHURT FAMILY SET IN STONE SURROUND, IN CHURCHYARD ABOUT 15 METRES SOUTH OF PORCH, CHURCH OF ST MARY, SEA LANE

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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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Statutory Address:: FOUR HEADSTONES TO THE SHURT FAMILY SET IN STONE SURROUND, IN CHURCHYARD ABOUT 15 METRES SOUTH OF PORCH, CHURCH OF ST MARY, SEA LANE

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Kilve
National Grid Reference:: ST 14678 43930

Details

ST14SW KILVE CP SEA LANE (West side)

5/118 Four headstones to the Shurt family set in stone surround, in churchyard about 15 metres South of porch, Church of St Mary

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GV II

Group of 4 headstones set into a stone wall surround about one metre high. Late C17 and early C18. Blue lias monolithic slabs set into blue lias random rubble wall. Inscribed with good lettering to member of the Shurt family, centre left Julian, died 1690, centre right Hugh, died 1709, other inscriptions no longer legible. Most of the stone surround obscured by ivy at time of survey (August 1983). The hurts were well-to-do clothiers, the leasees in the early C18 of the Kilve Mills (qv), and others. (VCH Somerset, vol 5 forthcoming).

Listing NGR: ST1467843930

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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.