Abbey Cemetery Pratt Tomb

ABBEY CEMETERY PRATT TOMB, RALPH ALLEN DRIVE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1396343
Date first listed:
15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:
Abbey Cemetery Pratt Tomb
Statutory Address:
ABBEY CEMETERY PRATT TOMB, RALPH ALLEN DRIVE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1396343
Date first listed:
15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:
Abbey Cemetery Pratt Tomb
Statutory Address 1:
ABBEY CEMETERY PRATT 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 PRATT 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 75830 63549

Details

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

GV II

Tomb of Charles Pratt (d.1844). Neoclassical aedicule of white marble on a Pennant stone plinth. Pedimented canopy carried on four fluted columns with lotus leaf capitals. Inside is a truncated column, surmounted by a coronet. The pedestal bears martial reliefs. HISTORY: One of the earliest memorials in the cemetery. Pratt was a soldier `of Eling, Hants. He served with great distinction in Flanders under HRH the Duke of York and under Sir David Baird at the capture of the Cape of Good Hope, and was subsequently for many years a Commissary-General to the forces in the Peninsula, under his Grace the Duke of Wellington¿. He was a Knight Commander of the Imperial Order of Christ, and this order is carved in relief around the inscription panel. Pratt lived at Combe Grove. The monument also commemorates (on the north side) Lieut Col. Sir William Lockyer Freestun (d.1862), MP for Weymouth 1847-59. Located at section I, lower border.

Listing NGR: ST758635

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Legacy System number:
511748
Legacy System:
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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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