Group of 3 Chest Tombs 2 Metres East of Chancel of Church of St Mary

GROUP OF 3 CHEST TOMBS 2 METRES EAST OF CHANCEL OF CHURCH OF ST MARY

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1383695
Date first listed:
29-Feb-2000
List Entry Name:
Group of 3 Chest Tombs 2 Metres East of Chancel of Church of St Mary
Statutory Address:
GROUP OF 3 CHEST TOMBS 2 METRES EAST OF CHANCEL OF CHURCH OF ST MARY

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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1383695
Date first listed:
29-Feb-2000
List Entry Name:
Group of 3 Chest Tombs 2 Metres East of Chancel of Church of St Mary
Statutory Address 1:
GROUP OF 3 CHEST TOMBS 2 METRES EAST OF CHANCEL OF CHURCH OF ST MARY

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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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
GROUP OF 3 CHEST TOMBS 2 METRES EAST OF CHANCEL OF CHURCH OF ST MARY

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

District:
Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Caynham
National Grid Reference:
SO 55390 73282

Details

CAYNHAM

SO57SE Group of 3 chest tombs 2 metres east
482-1/10/110 of chancel of Church of St Mary


GV II

Group of 3 chest tombs. Early C19. Ashlar.
Memorial to north with plain lid. Plain ends and plain raised
inscribed side panels. Gadrooned filleted corner sections.
Plinth buried. Commemorates Eleanor wife of Edmund Davis
d.1816 and Eleanor Palmer d.1840.
Memorial to centre with plain lid. Raised plain sides and
ends. Vertically bead moulded corners. Plinth buried.
Commemorates John, son of John and Elizabeth Small d.1825.
Memorial to south with plain lid. Raised plain sides and ends.
Vertically bead moulded corners. Plinth buried. Commemorates
John Smith d.1831.

Listing NGR: SO5539073282

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
484127
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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