Abbey Cemetery Lawton Tomb
ABBEY CEMETERY LAWTON TOMB, RALPH ALLEN DRIVE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1396335
- Date first listed:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Abbey Cemetery Lawton Tomb
- Statutory Address:
- ABBEY CEMETERY LAWTON TOMB, RALPH ALLEN DRIVE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1396335
- Date first listed:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Abbey Cemetery Lawton Tomb
- Statutory Address 1:
- ABBEY CEMETERY LAWTON TOMB, RALPH ALLEN DRIVE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- ABBEY CEMETERY LAWTON TOMB, RALPH ALLEN DRIVE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 75896 63581
Details
RALPH ALLEN DRIVE 656-1/0/0 Abbey Cemetery Lawton Tomb
GV II
Tomb of Edwin Lawton (d.1863). Gothic Revival headstone. White marble with mastic inlay. Moulded gabled top to stone with stiff-leaf label-stops. Incised ornament comprises an encircled Greek cross to gable, over a star flanked by quatrefoils, over trefoil arcading. The bronze inscription panel at the base records that the 19 year-old¿s `life was pure and his disposition amiable¿. HISTORY: Lawton lived at St Mary¿s Buildings, Lyncombe. The monument is very unusual because of its technique and embodies the experimentalism of the High Gothic Revival. Located at section II.A.19.20.
Listing NGR: ST758635
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 511740
- 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.
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