GROUP OF 10 CHEST TOMBS IMMEDIATELY TO SOUTH AND SOUTH-EAST OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST

GROUP OF 10 CHEST TOMBS IMMEDIATELY TO SOUTH AND SOUTH-EAST OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1367176
Date first listed:: 21-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:: GROUP OF 10 CHEST TOMBS IMMEDIATELY TO SOUTH AND SOUTH-EAST OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST
Statutory Address:: GROUP OF 10 CHEST TOMBS IMMEDIATELY TO SOUTH AND SOUTH-EAST OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, CHURCH STREET

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Date:: 1999-09-05
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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1367176
Date first listed:: 21-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:: GROUP OF 10 CHEST TOMBS IMMEDIATELY TO SOUTH AND SOUTH-EAST OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST
Statutory Address 1:: GROUP OF 10 CHEST TOMBS IMMEDIATELY TO SOUTH AND SOUTH-EAST OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, CHURCH STREET

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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Location

Statutory Address:: GROUP OF 10 CHEST TOMBS IMMEDIATELY TO SOUTH AND SOUTH-EAST OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, CHURCH STREET

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

District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Ruyton-XI-Towns
National Grid Reference:: SJ3947222149

Details

RUYTON-XI-TOWNS C.P. CHURCH STREET (north SJ 32 SE side) 8/141 Group of 10 chest tombs - immediately to south and south-east of tower of Church of St. John the Baptist

GV II

Group of 10 chest tombs. Mid-C18 to early C19. Sandstone ashlar. Row of 5 very closely-spaced tombs aligned north-south with another 2 on same alignment immediately to west; 3 further tombs a few metres to south-east. Five in row have moulded plinths and capping with mixture of fluted and plain corner pilasters; carved floral motifs to ends. Inscriptions to top ledgers, ranging in date from 1780 to 1805, commemorating members of local families. North tomb has inscription panel to north face in memory of Richard Basnett of Wykey (died 1796), flanked by floral emblems; fluted fans to spandrels. No tombs to west also have inscriptions to top ledgers, southern dated 1739 and other illegible but probably roughly contemporary. Three tombs to south-east, c.1800, with mixture of fluted and plain corner pilasters and chamfered top ledgers. Recessed semi-circular inscription panels to long sides and oval-shaped discs to ends.

Listing NGR: SJ3947222149

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Legacy System number:: 256693
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.