GROUP OF 7 HEADSTONES AND 5 FOOTSTONES FROM APPROXIMATELY 17 TO APPROXIMATELY 25 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST GILES

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1378161
Date first listed:: 24-Aug-1990
List Entry Name:: GROUP OF 7 HEADSTONES AND 5 FOOTSTONES FROM APPROXIMATELY 17 TO APPROXIMATELY 25 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST GILES
Statutory Address:: GROUP OF 7 HEADSTONES AND 5 FOOTSTONES FROM APPROXIMATELY 17 TO APPROXIMATELY 25 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST GILES

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1378161
Date first listed:: 24-Aug-1990
List Entry Name:: GROUP OF 7 HEADSTONES AND 5 FOOTSTONES FROM APPROXIMATELY 17 TO APPROXIMATELY 25 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST GILES
Statutory Address 1:: GROUP OF 7 HEADSTONES AND 5 FOOTSTONES FROM APPROXIMATELY 17 TO APPROXIMATELY 25 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST GILES

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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 7 HEADSTONES AND 5 FOOTSTONES FROM APPROXIMATELY 17 TO APPROXIMATELY 25 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST GILES

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

County:: Surrey
District:: Mole Valley (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 19284 57966

Details

ASHTEAD ASHTEAD PARK TQ 1857-1957 8/20 Group of 7 headstones and 5 footstones from approx.17 to approx. 25 metres south of Church of St Giles GV II

Row of 6 monumental headstones on north-south line, and another offset to the west. Mostly mid C18. All limestone. Commemorating (from left to right):- (1) Elizabeth Stone (d.1748): consoled pediment, carving with cherub head and hourglass; shaped footstone to rear carved with radiant hourglass and inscribed "Es 1748" (2) A.Syme, widow [date illegible]: shaped top; matching footstone to rear inscribed "AS 1810"; (3) Sarah Syms (d.1762): small stone, consoled pediment, carved panel with jolly cherub under radiant sun; matching footstone to rear inscribed "SS 1762"; (4) Richard Symes [date not visible]: white limestone, small, elaborately shaped top carved with hourglass framed by fans; matching footstone to rear inscribed "RS 1753"; (5) Richard Symes junior, son of Richard and Sarah Symes (d.1756): similar to (4) but with crossed tools over the hourglass; Matching footstone to rear inscribed "RS 1756"; (6) William Symes [date illegible]: shaped and scrolled top. Offset to the west between 1. and 2. above: (7) William Constable (d.1770): shaped top, carved with cherub and book

Listing NGR: TQ1928457966

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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.