UNIDENTIFIED CHEST TOMB, IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 4 METRES SOUTH OF NAVE, CHURCH OF ST MARY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1174966
Date first listed:: 04-Jun-1985
List Entry Name:: UNIDENTIFIED CHEST TOMB, IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 4 METRES SOUTH OF NAVE, CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address:: UNIDENTIFIED CHEST TOMB, IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 4 METRES SOUTH OF NAVE, CHURCH OF ST MARY

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Date:: 2007-04-13
Reference:: IOE01/15864/29
Rights:: © Mr John Chester. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1174966
Date first listed:: 04-Jun-1985
List Entry Name:: UNIDENTIFIED CHEST TOMB, IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 4 METRES SOUTH OF NAVE, CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address 1:: UNIDENTIFIED CHEST TOMB, IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 4 METRES SOUTH OF NAVE, CHURCH OF ST MARY

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:: UNIDENTIFIED CHEST TOMB, IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 4 METRES SOUTH OF NAVE, CHURCH OF ST MARY

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Luxborough
National Park:: EXMOOR
National Grid Reference:: SS9738238012

Details

SS93NE 11/76

LUXBOROUGH CP LUXBOROUGH VILLAGE Unidentified chest tomb, in churchyard, about 4 metres south of nave, Church of St Mary

GV II Chest tomb. Late C15-early C16. Local stone squared and coursed, flat topped monolithic slab, steeply chamfered cornice. Slab split diagonally in two and weather worn, Inset panel at east end with shield bearing unidentified coat of arms. Partially sunk. Forms a pair with similar unidentified chest tomb (qv) to south. Rare survival of an early chest tomb.

Listing NGR: SS9738238012

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Legacy System number:: 265359
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.