Cosling memorial about 26 metres north of the west wall of the chancel of the Parish Church of St John

Parish Church of St John, Tonbridge Road, Hildenborough, TN11 9HR

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1363166
Date first listed:
19-Feb-1990
List Entry Name:
Cosling memorial about 26 metres north of the west wall of the chancel of the Parish Church of St John
Statutory Address:
Parish Church of St John, Tonbridge Road, Hildenborough, TN11 9HR

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1363166
Date first listed:
19-Feb-1990
List Entry Name:
Cosling memorial about 26 metres north of the west wall of the chancel of the Parish Church of St John
Statutory Address 1:
Parish Church of St John, Tonbridge Road, Hildenborough, TN11 9HR

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
Parish Church of St John, Tonbridge Road, Hildenborough, TN11 9HR

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

County:
Kent
District:
Tonbridge and Malling (District Authority)
Parish:
Hildenborough
National Grid Reference:
TQ5648148882

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 07/03/2019

TQ 34 NE
5/128

HILDENBOROUGH
TONBRIDGE ROAD
Cosling memorial about 26 metres north of the west wall of the chancel of the Parish Church of St John

(Formerly listed as Cosling memorial about 26 metres north of the west wall of the chancel of the Church of St John, LONDON ROAD (north east side))

GV
II
Memorial. Early C20. Cast iron. A freestanding cast iron tablet crowned with a draped urn. The upper corners of the tablet are decorated with bulbous finials and, at the base, the tablet is supported on three short balusters with scrolls to left and right. The memorial commemorates William Cosling, died 1908.

An unusual cast iron memorial.

Listing NGR: TQ5648148882

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
179565
Legacy System:
LBS

Legal

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

Ordnance survey map of Cosling memorial about 26 metres north of the west wall of the chancel of the Parish Church of St John

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