BALE TOMB AND CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 6 METRES AND 8 METRES SOUTH OF NAVE AND 6 METRES AND 8 METRES SOUTH EAST OF PORCH OF CHURCH OF ST BRUTIUS

BALE TOMB AND CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 6 METRES AND 8 METRES SOUTH OF NAVE AND 6 METRES AND 8 METRES SOUTH EAST OF PORCH OF CHURCH OF ST BRUTIUS, STATION ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1368228
Date first listed:: 17-Oct-1988
List Entry Name:: BALE TOMB AND CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 6 METRES AND 8 METRES SOUTH OF NAVE AND 6 METRES AND 8 METRES SOUTH EAST OF PORCH OF CHURCH OF ST BRUTIUS
Statutory Address:: BALE TOMB AND CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 6 METRES AND 8 METRES SOUTH OF NAVE AND 6 METRES AND 8 METRES SOUTH EAST OF PORCH OF CHURCH OF ST BRUTIUS, STATION ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1368228
Date first listed:: 17-Oct-1988
List Entry Name:: BALE TOMB AND CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 6 METRES AND 8 METRES SOUTH OF NAVE AND 6 METRES AND 8 METRES SOUTH EAST OF PORCH OF CHURCH OF ST BRUTIUS
Statutory Address 1:: BALE TOMB AND CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 6 METRES AND 8 METRES SOUTH OF NAVE AND 6 METRES AND 8 METRES SOUTH EAST OF PORCH OF CHURCH OF ST BRUTIUS, STATION 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:: BALE TOMB AND CHEST TOMB APPROXIMATELY 6 METRES AND 8 METRES SOUTH OF NAVE AND 6 METRES AND 8 METRES SOUTH EAST OF PORCH OF CHURCH OF ST BRUTIUS, STATION ROAD

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

County:: Oxfordshire
District:: West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Brize Norton
National Grid Reference:: SP 29999 07585

Details

BRIZE NORTON STATION ROAD SP3007 (West side) 17/44 Bale tomb and chest tomb approx. 6m. and 8m. S of nave and 6m. and 8m. SE of porch of Church of St. Britius

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Bale tomb. Dated 1718. Limestone. Two worn inscription panels each side, flanked by foliate scrolls to rear. Moulded cornice: gadrooned bale with skulls set in shell hoods at ends. Chest tomb to south-east. Mid C18. Limestone. Two winged cherubs' heads carved over inscription panel, flanked by 2 narrow panels with trailing foliate carving: moulded cornice and capping. Commemorates John James (died 1760) and others of the James family.

Listing NGR: SP2999907585

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Legacy System number:: 252116
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.