TWO MONUMENTS IN CHURCHYARD ABOUT 2 METRES SOUTH EAST OF ROOD STAIR OF CHURCH OF ST PETER AND PAUL

TWO MONUMENTS IN CHURCHYARD ABOUT 2 METRES SOUTH EAST OF ROOD STAIR OF CHURCH OF ST PETER AND PAUL, TOP STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1363764
Date first listed:: 25-Nov-1987
List Entry Name:: TWO MONUMENTS IN CHURCHYARD ABOUT 2 METRES SOUTH EAST OF ROOD STAIR OF CHURCH OF ST PETER AND PAUL
Statutory Address:: TWO MONUMENTS IN CHURCHYARD ABOUT 2 METRES SOUTH EAST OF ROOD STAIR OF CHURCH OF ST PETER AND PAUL, TOP STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1363764
Date first listed:: 25-Nov-1987
List Entry Name:: TWO MONUMENTS IN CHURCHYARD ABOUT 2 METRES SOUTH EAST OF ROOD STAIR OF CHURCH OF ST PETER AND PAUL
Statutory Address 1:: TWO MONUMENTS IN CHURCHYARD ABOUT 2 METRES SOUTH EAST OF ROOD STAIR OF CHURCH OF ST PETER AND PAUL, TOP STREET

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:: TWO MONUMENTS IN CHURCHYARD ABOUT 2 METRES SOUTH EAST OF ROOD STAIR OF CHURCH OF ST PETER AND PAUL, TOP STREET

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

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Great Somerford
National Grid Reference:: ST9644483097

Details

ST 98 SE 3/215

GREAT SOMERFORD TOP STREET Two monuments in churchyard about 2m south east of rood-stair of Church of St Peter and Paul

GV II

Two chest tombs, early C19 and later C18, ashlar. From north: a) Unidentified monument, early C19 with plain framed side plaques and reeded centre and angle piers. Capstone has applied oval centre plaque. b) Shipton monument, later C18, with baluster angles, slab sides and low relief rococo framing to plaques. North inscription to Elizabeth Shipton died 1763, south to Francis Shipton, died 1799.

Listing NGR: ST9644483097

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Legacy System number:: 316341
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.