LEEK SEED CHAPEL STEPHENS TOMB NORTH WEST OF CHAPEL

LEEK SEED CHAPEL STEPHENS TOMB NORTH WEST OF CHAPEL, ST AUSTELL ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1386523
Date first listed:: 14-Apr-1999
List Entry Name:: LEEK SEED CHAPEL STEPHENS TOMB NORTH WEST OF CHAPEL
Statutory Address:: LEEK SEED CHAPEL STEPHENS TOMB NORTH WEST OF CHAPEL, ST AUSTELL ROAD

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Date:: 2005-03-15
Reference:: IOE01/13845/20
Rights:: © Mr Michael Perry. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1386523
Date first listed:: 14-Apr-1999
List Entry Name:: LEEK SEED CHAPEL STEPHENS TOMB NORTH WEST OF CHAPEL
Statutory Address 1:: LEEK SEED CHAPEL STEPHENS TOMB NORTH WEST OF CHAPEL, ST AUSTELL ROAD

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:: LEEK SEED CHAPEL STEPHENS TOMB NORTH WEST OF CHAPEL, ST AUSTELL ROAD

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

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: St. Blaise
National Grid Reference:: SX0601153705

Details

SX 05 SE S T AUSTEll ROAD ST BlAZEY GATE 868-1/10/10117

Leek Seed Chapel: Stephens Tomb NW of Chapel

GV II Chest tomb. 1822 to William Stephens (1740-1822), "The Old Gardener". Dressed granite with monolithic sides and a moulded lid. Rectangular plan. Stephens inscription to marble panel at one end. HISTORY: William Stephens is reputed to have saved the chapel fund by bravely bluffing 3 intruders that a pile of leek seed was a pile of gunpowder. See more detailed description with leek Seed Chapel qv.

Listing NGR: SX0601153705

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Legacy System number:: 473913
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.