Monument to Phoebe Hessell in Churchyard of Church of St Nicholas
MONUMENT TO PHOEBE HESSELL IN CHURCHYARD OF CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380391
- Date first listed:
- 26-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Monument to Phoebe Hessell in Churchyard of Church of St Nicholas
- Statutory Address:
- MONUMENT TO PHOEBE HESSELL IN CHURCHYARD OF CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380391
- Date first listed:
- 26-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Monument to Phoebe Hessell in Churchyard of Church of St Nicholas
- Statutory Address 1:
- MONUMENT TO PHOEBE HESSELL IN CHURCHYARD OF CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, CHURCH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- MONUMENT TO PHOEBE HESSELL IN CHURCHYARD OF CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, DYKE STREET
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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 PHOEBE HESSELL IN CHURCHYARD OF CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, CHURCH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- MONUMENT TO PHOEBE HESSELL IN CHURCHYARD OF CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, DYKE STREET
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 30771 04488
Details
BRIGHTON
TQ3004SE DYKE ROAD
577-1/39/1169 (East side)
Monument to Phoebe Hessell in
churchyard of the Church of St
Nicholas of Myra
GV II
Includes: Monument to Phoebe Hessell in churchyard of Church
of St Nicholas CHURCH STREET.
Headstone and footstone to Phoebe Hessell. c1821. Stone. 13m
south of the door of the south chapel. In 1728 Phoebe Smith
fell in love with William Golding, a soldier. She enlisted in
the Fifth Foot Regiment to remain with him, and spent 17 years
in the army disguised as a man. After Golding's death, Phoebe
moved to Brighton and married William Hessell in about 1769;
he died in 1792 and she spent much of the rest of her life,
until the age of 108, hawking fish, gingerbread and suchlike
in the streets of Brighton. Recent research casts doubt on her
story but the Northumberland Fusiliers believed it enough to
restore the grave in the 1970s.
Listing NGR: TQ3077104488
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 480504
- 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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