GRAVESTONE OF ELIZABETH REYNOR IN CHURCHYARD OF ST JAMES'S CHURCH

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1396592
Date first listed:: 09-Mar-2011
List Entry Name:: GRAVESTONE OF ELIZABETH REYNOR IN CHURCHYARD OF ST JAMES'S CHURCH
Statutory Address:: GRAVESTONE OF ELIZABETH REYNOR IN CHURCHYARD OF ST JAMES'S CHURCH

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1396592
Date first listed:: 09-Mar-2011
List Entry Name:: GRAVESTONE OF ELIZABETH REYNOR IN CHURCHYARD OF ST JAMES'S CHURCH
Statutory Address 1:: GRAVESTONE OF ELIZABETH REYNOR IN CHURCHYARD OF ST JAMES'S CHURCH

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:: GRAVESTONE OF ELIZABETH REYNOR IN CHURCHYARD OF ST JAMES'S CHURCH

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

County:: Lincolnshire
District:: South Kesteven (District Authority)
Parish:: Castle Bytham
National Grid Reference:: SK 98848 18337

Reasons for Designation

The gravestone of Elizabeth Reynor, located in the churchyard of St James's Church, Castle Bytham, is listed for the following principal reasons: * Date: it is a pre-Georgian monument, known to date to 1678 * Intactness: its essential form survives with the decorative carving intact and the majority of the inscription legible * Historical interest: it is near two other gravestones dating to the early and mid-C18, also located just south of the chancel, the area considered to be the prime position for burials * Group Value: it has strong group value with the Grade I listed church

Details

CASTLE BYTHAM

1762/0/10006 Gravestone of Elizabeth Reynor in chur 09-MAR-11 chyard of St James's Church

GV II A small, rectangular, upright, gravestone erected in 1678 of moulded limestone ashlar with a recessed shield incorporating the engraved lettering, above which is a central stylised flower motif flanked by scrolls. The inscription reads: 'Here Lieth the Body of ELIZABETH REANOR Who Departed [...] Life AVG: Ye 16 1678'. It is located approximately 4.5 metres south of the chancel.

HISTORY The gravestone of Elizabeth Reynor is located in the churchyard of the Grade I listed St James's Church which dates to the late C12. The churchyard is laid out on all four sides of the church and contains limestone and slate headstones dating from the C17 to the C20. The parish records have an entry for the death of Elizabeth Reynor, a widow, on 18 August 1678, who is presumably the person commemorated here.

SOURCES Allsop, N, J,'Castle Bytham Churchyard', unpublished survey (1997)

REASONS FOR DESIGNATION The gravestone of Elizabeth Reynor is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * Date: it is a pre-Georgian monument, known to date to 1678 * Intactness: its essential form survives with the decorative carving intact and the majority of the inscription legible * Group Value: it has strong group value with the Grade I listed church and two Grade II listed gravestones dating to the early and mid-C18, also located just south of the chancel, the area considered to be the prime position for burials

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 508814
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.