PARSON'S STEEPLE (20 METRES NORTH EAST STEEPLE HOUSE)

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1345995
Date first listed:: 16-Aug-1984
List Entry Name:: PARSON'S STEEPLE (20 METRES NORTH EAST STEEPLE HOUSE)
Statutory Address:: PARSON'S STEEPLE (20 METRES NORTH EAST STEEPLE HOUSE)

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1345995
Date first listed:: 16-Aug-1984
List Entry Name:: PARSON'S STEEPLE (20 METRES NORTH EAST STEEPLE HOUSE)
Statutory Address 1:: PARSON'S STEEPLE (20 METRES NORTH EAST STEEPLE HOUSE)

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: PARSON'S STEEPLE (20 METRES NORTH EAST STEEPLE HOUSE)

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: West Camel
National Grid Reference:: ST5773725822

Details

ST52NE 2/153

WEST CAMEL CP STEART HILL

Parson's Steeple (20 metres North-east Steeple House)

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Commemorative obelisk-type monument. Late C18. Local stone cut and squared, roughly coursed. Rectangular plan base with sloping buttress on South side; semi-circular arched deep recess on North side, with impost corbels, occupying half the total 6 metres height of the monument; taper starts on East and West sides only from springing level to about 30Omm width at the top; any termination now missing. In the recess a shaped niche where the inscription stone, described as "long since lost" in 1953, was set: it read "In memory of Henry Parsons, who died 24th September 1794 aged 84". Parsons was a noted eccentric who lived at Naish's Farm (qv), and built this monument during his lifetime, planting trees and shrubs around it. He was by legend, buried here without sacred rite: no record exists in the parish registers. (E.M. Garrett, The Story of West Camel, unpublished MS in Yeovil Reference Library, 1953).

Listing NGR: ST5773725822

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 262761
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Garrett, E M , The Story of West Camel, (1953)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.