HANCOCK HEADSTONE APPROXIMATELY 11 METRES NORTH OF CHURCH OF ST MARY AND THE HOLY CROSS

HANCOCK HEADSTONE APPROXIMATELY 11 METRES NORTH OF CHURCH OF ST MARY AND THE HOLY CROSS, SHIPSTON ROAD (A 3400)

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1382538
Date first listed:: 27-Apr-2000
List Entry Name:: HANCOCK HEADSTONE APPROXIMATELY 11 METRES NORTH OF CHURCH OF ST MARY AND THE HOLY CROSS
Statutory Address:: HANCOCK HEADSTONE APPROXIMATELY 11 METRES NORTH OF CHURCH OF ST MARY AND THE HOLY CROSS, SHIPSTON ROAD (A 3400)

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1382538
Date first listed:: 27-Apr-2000
List Entry Name:: HANCOCK HEADSTONE APPROXIMATELY 11 METRES NORTH OF CHURCH OF ST MARY AND THE HOLY CROSS
Statutory Address 1:: HANCOCK HEADSTONE APPROXIMATELY 11 METRES NORTH OF CHURCH OF ST MARY AND THE HOLY CROSS, SHIPSTON ROAD (A 3400)

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:: HANCOCK HEADSTONE APPROXIMATELY 11 METRES NORTH OF CHURCH OF ST MARY AND THE HOLY CROSS, SHIPSTON ROAD (A 3400)

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

County:: Warwickshire
District:: Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
Parish:: Alderminster
National Grid Reference:: SP 22996 48667

Details

ALDERMINSTER

SP24NW SHIPSTON ROAD (A 3400) 1912-1/6/187 (South West side) Hancock headstone approx. 11m N of Church of St Mary and the Holy Cross

GV II

Headstone to Esther Hancock, d.1720. Ashlar. Plain frame to well-preserved inscription; shaped head has reliefs of flowers. Verse reads: Stand still reader spend/ a teare Think on ye dust/ that slumbers here/ And when thou readst ye/ state if me Think on ye/ glass that runns for thee. A well preserved example.

Listing NGR: SP2299648667

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Legacy System number:: 482922
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.