GIBSON AND SCACE FAMILY MONUMENT IMMEDIATELY SW OF THE S PORCH OF THE CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS

GIBSON AND SCACE FAMILY MONUMENT IMMEDIATELY SW OF THE S PORCH OF THE CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, THE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1391305
Date first listed:: 17-Mar-2005
List Entry Name:: GIBSON AND SCACE FAMILY MONUMENT IMMEDIATELY SW OF THE S PORCH OF THE CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS
Statutory Address:: GIBSON AND SCACE FAMILY MONUMENT IMMEDIATELY SW OF THE S PORCH OF THE CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, THE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1391305
Date first listed:: 17-Mar-2005
List Entry Name:: GIBSON AND SCACE FAMILY MONUMENT IMMEDIATELY SW OF THE S PORCH OF THE CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS
Statutory Address 1:: GIBSON AND SCACE FAMILY MONUMENT IMMEDIATELY SW OF THE S PORCH OF THE CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, THE 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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: GIBSON AND SCACE FAMILY MONUMENT IMMEDIATELY SW OF THE S PORCH OF THE CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, THE STREET

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

County:: Suffolk
District:: Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Laxfield
National Grid Reference:: TM2961472424

Details

1221/0/10006

LAXFIELD

THE STREET Gibson and Scace family monument immediately SW of the S porch of the Church of All Saints

GV II

Monument. c.1800. Stone. A sandstone-paved raised plinth, approx. 2.5 x 5m., and formerly with railings, contains a chest tomb and a ledger slab. The chest tomb is of fine grained limestone, with shield-like panels on all sides, each surmounted by a swag. Corners have Gothick style narrow panels. Moulded plinth, and projecting coping below inscribed top slab. The shields contain inscriptions to members of the Gibson and Scase families including Barnabas Gibson, d.1792, his wife Martha, d.1803, Robert Scace, d.1841, his wife Charlotte, d.1840, and Gibson Harper Scace, d.1844. This is a finely carved chest tomb which is part of a large family monument enclosure standing adjacent to the Church of All Saints (q.v.) with which it forms a significant group.

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Legacy System number:: 492672
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.