Ashby Tomb
Ashby Tomb, Abbey Cemetery, Ralph Allen Drive, Bath
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1405945
- Date first listed:
- 05-Dec-2011
- List Entry Name:
- Ashby Tomb
- Statutory Address:
- Ashby Tomb, Abbey Cemetery, Ralph Allen Drive, Bath
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1405945
- Date first listed:
- 05-Dec-2011
- List Entry Name:
- Ashby Tomb
- Statutory Address 1:
- Ashby Tomb, Abbey Cemetery, Ralph Allen Drive, Bath
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:
- Ashby Tomb, Abbey Cemetery, Ralph Allen Drive, Bath
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:
- ST7583763600
Summary
Chest tomb. 1847.
Reasons for Designation
* Architectural interest: as a good quality Gothic Revival tomb, resembling the Grade II listed Tottenham Tomb to the north of the cemetery;
* Historic interest and group value: located within Abbey Cemetery, a Grade II* Registered Park and Garden, and forms part of a collection of listed funerary monuments which reflect the social, economic and aesthetic life of Bath in the second half of the C19.
History
Ashby was born in Barbados and is described as ‘late of St Michael’s Church, Kingston, Jamaica’. He lived at Combe Down, Monkton Combe. The tomb resembles the Tottenham Tomb [qv]. Situated in section VI.C.21.
Details
Chest tomb of the Rev Nathan Ashby (d.1847). 1847. Pennant stone, grey granite lid. Gothic revival style with blind arcading to sides with trefoil-headed tracery.
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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