GROUP OF 4 CHEST TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 5 METRES SOUTH AND WEST OF CHURCH OF ST LEONARD

GROUP OF 4 CHEST TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 5 METRES SOUTH AND WEST OF CHURCH OF ST LEONARD, CHURCH LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1368842
Date first listed:: 16-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: GROUP OF 4 CHEST TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 5 METRES SOUTH AND WEST OF CHURCH OF ST LEONARD
Statutory Address:: GROUP OF 4 CHEST TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 5 METRES SOUTH AND WEST OF CHURCH OF ST LEONARD, CHURCH LANE

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Date:: 2003-08-08
Reference:: IOE01/11090/02
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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1368842
Date first listed:: 16-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: GROUP OF 4 CHEST TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 5 METRES SOUTH AND WEST OF CHURCH OF ST LEONARD
Statutory Address 1:: GROUP OF 4 CHEST TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 5 METRES SOUTH AND WEST OF CHURCH OF ST LEONARD, CHURCH LANE

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 4 CHEST TOMBS APPROXIMATELY 5 METRES SOUTH AND WEST OF CHURCH OF ST LEONARD, CHURCH LANE

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County:: Oxfordshire
District:: South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Drayton St. Leonard
National Grid Reference:: SU5965896475

Details

DRAYTON ST.LEONARD SU5996 8/52

CHURCH LANE (North side) Group of 4 chest tombs approx. 5m. S and W of Church of St. Leonard

GV II Group of 4 chest tombs. C18. Stone. Rectangular. Chest tomb approx. 4m. south of tower: probably early C18. Cyma recta moulded base. 2 fielded panels to each side. Single fielded panels to ends. Baluster moulding to corners. Inscribed panel to west end with illegible, probably C19, inscription. Moulded top. Chest tomb to Francis Dandridge approx. 6m. south of church, and chest tomb approx. 3m. west of tower. Cyma recta moulded base. 3 fielded panels to each side, that to centre wider. Fielded panel to each end, except one end of Dandridge chest tomb has inscribed panel, mostly illegible with swagged surround and winged head to top. Chest tomb approx. 7m. south of tower: mid C18. 2 fielded panels to sides. Single panels to ends. Form group round south-west corner of church.

Listing NGR: SU5965896475

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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.