BURIAL GROUND WALLS INCLUDING SIX C18 HEADSTONES

BURIAL GROUND WALLS INCLUDING SIX C18 HEADSTONES, HAM HILL ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1390944
Date first listed:: 07-Apr-2004
List Entry Name:: BURIAL GROUND WALLS INCLUDING SIX C18 HEADSTONES
Statutory Address:: BURIAL GROUND WALLS INCLUDING SIX C18 HEADSTONES, HAM HILL ROAD

Entrance gate to Baptist burial ground, Ham Hill Road, Odcombe — Uploaded by Sandra Bailey This photo may not represent the current condition of the site
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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1390944
Date first listed:: 07-Apr-2004
List Entry Name:: BURIAL GROUND WALLS INCLUDING SIX C18 HEADSTONES
Statutory Address 1:: BURIAL GROUND WALLS INCLUDING SIX C18 HEADSTONES, HAM HILL 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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: BURIAL GROUND WALLS INCLUDING SIX C18 HEADSTONES, HAM HILL ROAD

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Odcombe
National Grid Reference:: ST5034616000

Details

ODCOMBE

1597/0/10004 HAM HILL ROAD 07-APR-04 Five Ashes Burial Ground Walls including six C18 headstones with shaped heads towards n orth end of cemetery

II Cemetery boundary walls and six headstones. The walls were built in 1868, and enclose earlier burial ground that is said to have been established in 1606 and was extended to south in 1774 and again in 1809. Coursed limestone rubble walls with rubble capping. Large rectangular enclosure with pedestrian gateway on south east side with moulded stone frame and later iron gates. Towards the north end there are six C18 headstones with shaped heads, three of which have angels carved in relief at the top. They are the earlist gravestones in the cemetery. The Baptist burial ground at Five Ashes is claimed to have been established in 1606, but the first recorded interment was 1720. It is situated in an isolated location at some distance to the NNW of the village of Odcombe. This is an interesting and early example of a Baptist cemetery containing some of its first gravestones.

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Legacy System number:: 492587
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.