THE CAVE OF THE SEVEN HEADS IN THE GROUNDS OF INGRESS ABBEY AT TQ 5898 7508

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1362088
Date first listed:: 08-Oct-1997
List Entry Name:: THE CAVE OF THE SEVEN HEADS IN THE GROUNDS OF INGRESS ABBEY AT TQ 5898 7508
Statutory Address:: THE CAVE OF THE SEVEN HEADS IN THE GROUNDS OF INGRESS ABBEY AT TQ 5898 7508

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1362088
Date first listed:: 08-Oct-1997
List Entry Name:: THE CAVE OF THE SEVEN HEADS IN THE GROUNDS OF INGRESS ABBEY AT TQ 5898 7508
Statutory Address 1:: THE CAVE OF THE SEVEN HEADS IN THE GROUNDS OF INGRESS ABBEY AT TQ 5898 7508

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:: THE CAVE OF THE SEVEN HEADS IN THE GROUNDS OF INGRESS ABBEY AT TQ 5898 7508

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

County:: Kent
District:: Dartford (District Authority)
Parish:: Swanscombe and Greenhithe
National Grid Reference:: TQ5899674925

Details

TQ 5874 989/9/10003

SWANSCOMBE AND GREENHITHE GREENHITHE The Cave of the Seven Heads in the grounds of Ingress Abbey at TQ 5898 7508

GV II

Garden folly. c1833 reusing earlier masonry possibly from old London bridge. Cave excavated into the side of an embankment with rough stone exterior wall with arch with four keystones of grotesque heads which possibly came from the medieval London Bridge and semicircular chamber about 12 feet across with two stone pillars. The remaining three heads were either buried beneath the soil level or not in situ at time of survey.

Listing NGR: TQ5899674925

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

Legacy System number:: 468865
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.