Monument to Martha Gunn in Churchyard of St Nicholas of Myra
MONUMENT TO MARTHA GUNN IN CHURCHYARD OF ST NICHOLAS OF MYRA, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380389
- Date first listed:
- 26-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Monument to Martha Gunn in Churchyard of St Nicholas of Myra
- Statutory Address:
- MONUMENT TO MARTHA GUNN IN CHURCHYARD OF ST NICHOLAS OF MYRA, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380389
- Date first listed:
- 26-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Monument to Martha Gunn in Churchyard of St Nicholas of Myra
- Statutory Address 1:
- MONUMENT TO MARTHA GUNN IN CHURCHYARD OF ST NICHOLAS OF MYRA, CHURCH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- MONUMENT TO MARTHA GUNN IN CHURCHYARD OF ST NICHOLAS OF MYRA, DYKE ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- MONUMENT TO MARTHA GUNN IN CHURCHYARD OF ST NICHOLAS OF MYRA, CHURCH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- MONUMENT TO MARTHA GUNN IN CHURCHYARD OF ST NICHOLAS OF MYRA, DYKE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- The City of Brighton and Hove (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 30780 04494
Details
BRIGHTON
TQ3004SE DYKE ROAD
577-1/39/1168 (East side)
Monument to Martha Gunn in
churchyard of the Church of St
Nicholas of Myra
GV II
Includes: Monument to Martha Gunn in churchyard of Church of
St Nicholas of Myra CHURCH STREET.
Headstone to Martha Gunn. c1815. Stone. 3m from the south-east
corner of the church. Coffin shaped bodystone and footstone.
Martha Gunn was the most famous of the Brighton 'dippers',
women who were employed to plunge women bathers into the sea
in the second half of the C18 and first half of the C19; she
was active from c1750 to 1814.
Listing NGR: TQ3078004494
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 480502
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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