ABBEY CEMETERY PARTIS TOMB

ABBEY CEMETERY PARTIS TOMB, RALPH ALLEN DRIVE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1396338
Date first listed:: 15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: ABBEY CEMETERY PARTIS TOMB
Statutory Address:: ABBEY CEMETERY PARTIS TOMB, RALPH ALLEN DRIVE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1396338
Date first listed:: 15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: ABBEY CEMETERY PARTIS TOMB
Statutory Address 1:: ABBEY CEMETERY PARTIS TOMB, RALPH ALLEN DRIVE

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:: ABBEY CEMETERY PARTIS 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 75877 63645

Details

RALPH ALLEN DRIVE 656-1/0/0 Abbey Cemetery Partis Tomb

GV II*

Tomb of Ann Partis (d.1846). Neo-classical two-stage memorial. White marble, Pennant base. A Roman altar-like design with Soanian anthemion finials to corners of upper stage. Crossed palm reliefs to lower stages. Marble inscription (weathered) records her notable deeds of charity: `Blessed with wealth her constant care was to use it to the glory of God and the benefit, temporal and eternal, of her fellow creatures. With the entire approval of her husband who left all his property at her sole disposal: she built and endowed a college, which bears his name, at Weston¿ for the repose, the relief, and the spiritual consolation of thirty gentlewomen, reduced by widowhood or orphanage from affluence to privations and distress¿. HISTORY: The foundress of Partis College [q.v.] of 1825-27, she lived at 58 Pulteney Street. A prominent monument to one of the leading Bath philanthropists.

Listing NGR: ST758635

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Legacy System number:: 511743
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.