GROUP OF 8 CHEST TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 14 METRES AND 22 METRES NORTH NORTH WEST AND 25 METRES NORTH OF NAVE OF CHURCH OF ST MARY

GROUP OF 8 CHEST TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 14 METRES AND 22 METRES NORTH NORTH WEST AND 25 METRES NORTH OF NAVE OF CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH GREEN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1367915
Date first listed:: 03-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:: GROUP OF 8 CHEST TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 14 METRES AND 22 METRES NORTH NORTH WEST AND 25 METRES NORTH OF NAVE OF CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address:: GROUP OF 8 CHEST TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 14 METRES AND 22 METRES NORTH NORTH WEST AND 25 METRES NORTH OF NAVE OF CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH GREEN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1367915
Date first listed:: 03-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:: GROUP OF 8 CHEST TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 14 METRES AND 22 METRES NORTH NORTH WEST AND 25 METRES NORTH OF NAVE OF CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address 1:: GROUP OF 8 CHEST TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 14 METRES AND 22 METRES NORTH NORTH WEST AND 25 METRES NORTH OF NAVE OF CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH GREEN

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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 8 CHEST TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 14 METRES AND 22 METRES NORTH NORTH WEST AND 25 METRES NORTH OF NAVE OF CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH GREEN

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County:: Oxfordshire
District:: West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Witney
National Grid Reference:: SP 35599 09273

Details

WITNEY CHURCH GREEN SP3509S (South side) 11/41 Group of 8 chest tombs approx. 14m. and 22m. NNW and 25m. N of nave of Church of St. Mary GV II

8 chest tombs. Two chest tombs approximately 14 metres north-north-west. Early C18. Limestone. Tomb to south has cyma-moulded plinth, splayed cornice to top and 2 inscription panels with raised surrounds. Tomb to north has raised surround to narrow panels and central inscription panel, with skulls flanking winged cherub's head over worn inscription. Chest tomb approximately 22 metres north-north-west. Early/mid C18. Limestone. Cyma-moulded plinth and cornice: carved scrolls flank inscription panel. Group of 5 chest tombs approximately 25 metres north. C18. Limestone. All have moulded tops. Leake tomb to south-west, dated 1767 and 1750s, has rococo cartouche. Similar mid C18 tomb to north. Tombs to east are dated 1786, and another commemorates Anne Fisher, died early C19.

Listing NGR: SP3559609263

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Legacy System number:: 252601
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.