MONUMENT TO JEREMIAH CRUTCHLEY, LEE OLD CHURCHYARD

MONUMENT TO JEREMIAH CRUTCHLEY, LEE OLD CHURCHYARD, LEE TERRACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1391998
Date first listed:: 01-Jun-2007
List Entry Name:: MONUMENT TO JEREMIAH CRUTCHLEY, LEE OLD CHURCHYARD
Statutory Address:: MONUMENT TO JEREMIAH CRUTCHLEY, LEE OLD CHURCHYARD, LEE TERRACE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1391998
Date first listed:: 01-Jun-2007
List Entry Name:: MONUMENT TO JEREMIAH CRUTCHLEY, LEE OLD CHURCHYARD
Statutory Address 1:: MONUMENT TO JEREMIAH CRUTCHLEY, LEE OLD CHURCHYARD, LEE TERRACE

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:: MONUMENT TO JEREMIAH CRUTCHLEY, LEE OLD CHURCHYARD, LEE TERRACE

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

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Lewisham (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ3904575706

Details

779/15/10032 LEE TERRACE 01-JUN-07 LEE Monument to Jeremiah Crutchley, Lee Ol d Churchyard

GV II Chest tomb. erected c.1752, to Jeremiah Crutchley (d.1752). This chest tomb has a sloping cover, with corner pilasters flanking on each side a shallow sarcophagus on lion's feet, with a cherub's head set amid a floral garland. The tomb formerly had railings. The back plates and inscription panels have all been removed. This is one of the many damaged monuments of quality in the churchyard.

HISTORY: Lee old churchyard contains many notable monuments which reflect the area's Georgian past as a place of retirement for City merchants and those involved with Greenwich and the Deptford shipyards. In the centre of the churchyard stand the remains of the tower belonging to the former medieval Church of St Margaret (listed Grade II). The current Church of St Margaret stands to the south side of Lee Terrace (139-41, listed Grade II*). The churchyard of the current church contains later tombs, being used principally between the 1840s and 1870s. A decline in usage came with the opening of Hither Green Cemetery, Lee in 1873. This tomb is identifiable from Joseph Gwilt's notes of 1830.

SUMMARY OF IMPORTANCE: The monument of Jeremiah Crutchley (d.1752), Lee old churchyard, Lewisham, is a stone chest tomb with images of sarcophagi and cherub's heads. It meets the criteria for listing of commemorative monuments as a mid-C18 tomb of good architectural quality.

SOURCES E and J Birchenough, Monumental Inscriptions in the Old Churchyard, St Margaret's, Lee (1967 typescript in Manor House Library) C P Gwilt (1830), F Bamping (2001) et al, Lee - Kent Archaeological Society website.

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 503657
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.