FOUR CHEST TOMBS AND HEADSTONE APPROXIMATELY 10 METRES WEST OF CHURCH OF ST MARY

FOUR CHEST TOMBS AND HEADSTONE APPROXIMATELY 10 METRES WEST OF CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1386568
Date first listed:: 14-Dec-1983
List Entry Name:: FOUR CHEST TOMBS AND HEADSTONE APPROXIMATELY 10 METRES WEST OF CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address:: FOUR CHEST TOMBS AND HEADSTONE APPROXIMATELY 10 METRES WEST OF CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1386568
Date first listed:: 14-Dec-1983
Date of most recent amendment:: 26-Nov-1998
List Entry Name:: FOUR CHEST TOMBS AND HEADSTONE APPROXIMATELY 10 METRES WEST OF CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address 1:: FOUR CHEST TOMBS AND HEADSTONE APPROXIMATELY 10 METRES WEST OF CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH 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:: FOUR CHEST TOMBS AND HEADSTONE APPROXIMATELY 10 METRES WEST OF CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH STREET

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

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Cheltenham (District Authority)
Parish:: Charlton Kings
National Grid Reference:: SO 96428 20442

Details

CHARLTON KINGS

SO9620SW CHURCH STREET 630-1/36/29 (South West side) 14/12/83 Four chest tombs and headstone approximately 10m west of Church of St Mary (Formerly Listed as: CHURCH STREET (South West side) Three chest tombs 10-15 yards west of west end of Church of St Mary) (Formerly Listed as: CHURCH STREET (South West side) Two chest tombs to west of Church of St Mary)

GV II

3 late C17 chest tombs, including one to Thomas Ashmond (?) d.1686, a late C18 tomb chest and an early C17 headstone. Limestone. 2 tomb chests have oval cartouches between projecting acanthus scrolls to ends and embellished sides, one with death-masks, the other with scrolls, surmounting slabs are undercut. The tomb chest to Thomas Ashmond has inscription tablets to sides bordered by scroll motifs and fluted, carved 'pilasters' to corners, surmounted by thick slab with cavetto-moulding to underside. Neo-Classical tomb chest has cavetto-moulded base, circular inscription panels to east side with anthemions at corners and worn inscription, cornice and slab with cavetto-moulded under-moulding. Headstone has shaped recessed inscription tablet and elliptically-arched head with scroll motif.

Listing NGR: SO9642820442

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Legacy System number:: 473960
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.