DUNSFORD MONUMENT IN ST PETERS CHURCHYARD 6.6 METRES SOUTH EAST OF SOUTH PORCH

DUNSFORD MONUMENT IN ST PETERS CHURCHYARD 6.6 METRES SOUTH EAST OF SOUTH PORCH, ST PETER STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1384954
Date first listed:: 10-Apr-2000
List Entry Name:: DUNSFORD MONUMENT IN ST PETERS CHURCHYARD 6.6 METRES SOUTH EAST OF SOUTH PORCH
Statutory Address:: DUNSFORD MONUMENT IN ST PETERS CHURCHYARD 6.6 METRES SOUTH EAST OF SOUTH PORCH, ST PETER STREET

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Date:: 2007-06-06
Reference:: IOE01/16279/19
Rights:: © Mr John Chester. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1384954
Date first listed:: 10-Apr-2000
List Entry Name:: DUNSFORD MONUMENT IN ST PETERS CHURCHYARD 6.6 METRES SOUTH EAST OF SOUTH PORCH
Statutory Address 1:: DUNSFORD MONUMENT IN ST PETERS CHURCHYARD 6.6 METRES SOUTH EAST OF SOUTH PORCH, ST PETER STREET

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:: DUNSFORD MONUMENT IN ST PETERS CHURCHYARD 6.6 METRES SOUTH EAST OF SOUTH PORCH, ST PETER STREET

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

County:: Devon
District:: Mid Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Tiverton
National Grid Reference:: SS 95423 12819

Details

TIVERTON

SS9512 ST PETER STREET, Tiverton 848-1/6/313 Dunsford monument in St Peter's churchyard, 6.6m south-east of south porch

GV II

Dunsford monument. Probably late C19. White marble on a grey stone pedestal. Pedestal has moulded cap and base, the sides with roughened masonry. On it stands a tall, square tapered shaft with shaped top surmounted by an urn. Inscriptions in lead letters on all 4 sides. At the top of the north side is the inscription IN MEMORY OF MARTIN DUNSFORD OF TIVERTON SERGE MANUFACTURER A TRULY WISE AND SINCERELY GOOD MAN DIED OCTR. 30th 1763 AGED 52. On the west side is MARTIN DUNSFORD AUTHOR OF THE HISTORICAL MEMORIES OF TIVERTON DIED MARCH 13 - 1807. AGED 63 YEARS. On the east side is an inscription to Gideon Acland Boyce (d.1861), the architect. Several other members of the Dunsford, Boyce, Acland and Pratt families are commemorated, their dates of death ranging from 1771 to 1936.

Listing NGR: SS9542012822

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Legacy System number:: 485413
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.