GROUP OF 3 CHEST TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 3 METRES TO EAST OF APSE OF CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST

GROUP OF 3 CHEST TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 3 METRES TO EAST OF APSE OF CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, BRAMPTON ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1367188
Date first listed:: 02-Jan-1985
List Entry Name:: GROUP OF 3 CHEST TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 3 METRES TO EAST OF APSE OF CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST
Statutory Address:: GROUP OF 3 CHEST TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 3 METRES TO EAST OF APSE OF CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, BRAMPTON ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1367188
Date first listed:: 02-Jan-1985
List Entry Name:: GROUP OF 3 CHEST TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 3 METRES TO EAST OF APSE OF CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST
Statutory Address 1:: GROUP OF 3 CHEST TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 3 METRES TO EAST OF APSE OF CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, BRAMPTON ROAD

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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Statutory Address:: GROUP OF 3 CHEST TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 3 METRES TO EAST OF APSE OF CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, BRAMPTON ROAD

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

District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Bishop's Castle
National Grid Reference:: SO 32341 88410

Details

SO 3288 BISHOP'S CASTLE C.P. BRAMPTON ROAD (south side)

12/15 Group of 3 chest tombs approximately 3 metres to east of apse of Church of St. John the Baptist

GV II

Three chest tombs. Early- to mid-C19. Sandstone ashlar. Larger one to south: rounded corners, panelled pilasters and inscription panels, moulded plinth and hipped capping with rounded corners. To Anne Griffiths, died 1825. Also to Richard Griffiths, died 1837. Coffin slab to south, shaped as coffin with 'R G' in raised lettering. Tomb to north- west: circa 1800; quarter columns to corners and hipped capping. To Powell family. Tomb to north-east: circa 1800. Gothic quatrefoil- panelled sides, trefoil-headed panels to corner pilasters, and hipped capping. To Phillips family.

Listing NGR: SO3234188410

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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.