GROUP OF EIGHT LEDGER SLABS SITUATED IMMEDIATELY EAST OF THE CHURCH OF ST GEORGE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1349904
Date first listed:: 11-May-1987
List Entry Name:: GROUP OF EIGHT LEDGER SLABS SITUATED IMMEDIATELY EAST OF THE CHURCH OF ST GEORGE
Statutory Address:: GROUP OF EIGHT LEDGER SLABS SITUATED IMMEDIATELY EAST OF THE CHURCH OF ST GEORGE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1349904
Date first listed:: 11-May-1987
List Entry Name:: GROUP OF EIGHT LEDGER SLABS SITUATED IMMEDIATELY EAST OF THE CHURCH OF ST GEORGE
Statutory Address 1:: GROUP OF EIGHT LEDGER SLABS SITUATED IMMEDIATELY EAST OF THE CHURCH OF ST GEORGE

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:: GROUP OF EIGHT LEDGER SLABS SITUATED IMMEDIATELY EAST OF THE CHURCH OF ST GEORGE

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District:: County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Burrington
National Grid Reference:: SO 44250 72096

Details

BURRINGTON CP BURRINGTON SO 47 SW 3/9 Group of eight ledger slabs situated immediately east of the church of St George GV II Group of eight ledger slabs. Dated 1619 - 1754. Cast iron. From north to south as follows: 1. to Robert Steward, died 1619 2. to Joyce Walker, died 1658 with scalloped rim 3. to Maria Hare, died 1674, with moulded rim 4. to Jane and Barbara Knight, died 1701 and 1705, with moulded rim 5. to Ralph Knight, died 1754, with broad ornate border 6. to Jane Hare, died 1678, with moulded rim 7. to Richard Knight, died 1745, with broad ornate border; similar to 5 8. to William Walker, died 1676, with moulded rim. All slabs, apart from 2, have coats-of-arms reliefs. It is probable that this unusual group of early cast iron slabs was produced at the Knight family's iron foundry in Shropshire. The stone slab situated between slabs 7 and 8 is mutilated and not included in this list. These slabs were formerly sited in the church and removed at the time of restoration.

Listing NGR: SO4425072096

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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.