Abbey Cemetery Pearce Tomb

ABBEY CEMETERY PEARCE TOMB, RALPH ALLEN DRIVE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1396341
Date first listed:
15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:
Abbey Cemetery Pearce Tomb
Statutory Address:
ABBEY CEMETERY PEARCE TOMB, RALPH ALLEN DRIVE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1396341
Date first listed:
15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:
Abbey Cemetery Pearce Tomb
Statutory Address 1:
ABBEY CEMETERY PEARCE TOMB, RALPH ALLEN DRIVE

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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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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
ABBEY CEMETERY PEARCE 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 75819 63551

Details

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

GV II

Tomb of Joseph Channing Pearce (d.1847). Ledger tomb of polished pink Peterhead granite, carried on four buns over a plinth of Pennant stone. Signed `Rogers, Bath¿. HISTORY: Pearce, a surgeon of Bradford-on-Avon, died aged 35. `He spent his life in studying the work of God¿ and amassed a huge collection of fossils at his house, Montague House, Lambridge. Located at section I.E.1.2.3.

Listing NGR: ST758635

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Legacy System number:
511746
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.

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