GROUP OF 5 MONUMENTS IN THE CHURCHYARD, 5 TO 7 METRES SOUTH AND SOUTH EAST OF CHANCEL, CHURCH OF ST MARY

GROUP OF 5 MONUMENTS IN THE CHURCHYARD, 5 TO 7 METRES SOUTH AND SOUTH EAST OF CHANCEL, CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1355984
Date first listed:: 03-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:: GROUP OF 5 MONUMENTS IN THE CHURCHYARD, 5 TO 7 METRES SOUTH AND SOUTH EAST OF CHANCEL, CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address:: GROUP OF 5 MONUMENTS IN THE CHURCHYARD, 5 TO 7 METRES SOUTH AND SOUTH EAST OF CHANCEL, CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1355984
Date first listed:: 03-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:: GROUP OF 5 MONUMENTS IN THE CHURCHYARD, 5 TO 7 METRES SOUTH AND SOUTH EAST OF CHANCEL, CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address 1:: GROUP OF 5 MONUMENTS IN THE CHURCHYARD, 5 TO 7 METRES SOUTH AND SOUTH EAST OF CHANCEL, CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH LANE

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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 5 MONUMENTS IN THE CHURCHYARD, 5 TO 7 METRES SOUTH AND SOUTH EAST OF CHANCEL, CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH LANE

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District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Sopworth
National Grid Reference:: ST8280286278

Details

ST 88 NW 2/152

SOPWORTH CHURCH LANE (north side) Group of 5 monuments in the churchyard, 5-7m south and south-east of chancel, Church of St Mary

GV II

Five chest tombs. Early-late C18. Limestone. Lettered from east to west (a) Unidentified. Mid C18 with floral angle pilasters and raised and fielded panels to south side framing inscription panel with egg-and-dart frieze. North side collapsed at time of resurvey (May 1986). Moulded plinth, cyma recta moulded cornice to slab. (b) Unidentified. Mid C18 with angle balusters, floral sprays framing raised and fielded inscription panels to south side, similar panel to north. Bead-and-reel moulding to cornice, cyma recta moulded slab with gadrooned edge. Weather decay to slab. (c) Unidentified. Early C18 with floral sprays to angle pilasters, large inscription panels to each side with swagged decoration badly decayed and deeply projecting slab with weather erosion. (d) Unidentified. Mid C18. Angle and central pilasters forming 2 moulded inscription panels: single patera above each panel. Deeply projecting cyma recta moulded slab. (e) Unidentified. Late C18. End panels in one block to simulate balusters, 2 panels to each side: oval to south, square with cut away corners to north. Cyma recta moulded slab with slight weathering.

Listing NGR: ST8280286278

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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.