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VAULTS, HEADSTONES AND RETAINING WALL LINING WEST SIDE OF APPROACH TO CHURCH OF ST ANDREW FROM SOUTH GATE OF CHURCHYARD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1252739
Date first listed:: 20-Nov-1986
List Entry Name:: VAULTS, HEADSTONES AND RETAINING WALL LINING WEST SIDE OF APPROACH TO CHURCH OF ST ANDREW FROM SOUTH GATE OF CHURCHYARD
Statutory Address:: VAULTS, HEADSTONES AND RETAINING WALL LINING WEST SIDE OF APPROACH TO CHURCH OF ST ANDREW FROM SOUTH GATE OF CHURCHYARD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1252739
Date first listed:: 20-Nov-1986
List Entry Name:: VAULTS, HEADSTONES AND RETAINING WALL LINING WEST SIDE OF APPROACH TO CHURCH OF ST ANDREW FROM SOUTH GATE OF CHURCHYARD
Statutory Address 1:: VAULTS, HEADSTONES AND RETAINING WALL LINING WEST SIDE OF APPROACH TO CHURCH OF ST ANDREW FROM SOUTH GATE OF CHURCHYARD

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:: VAULTS, HEADSTONES AND RETAINING WALL LINING WEST SIDE OF APPROACH TO CHURCH OF ST ANDREW FROM SOUTH GATE OF CHURCHYARD

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

County:: Devon
District:: Mid Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Colebrooke
National Grid Reference:: SS 77005 00002

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COLEBROOKE COLEBROOKE SS 70 SE 3/99 Vaults, headstones and retaining - wall lining west side of approach to Church of St Andrew from south gate of churchyard

GV II

Group of 5 family vaults, 2 headstones and revetment wall lining sunken path. All C19. Vaults and headstones employ limestone, granite, volcanic stone and mudstone ashlar and wall of mudstone noble. Various styles. Described from north (nearest church) to south (adjoining south gate of churchyard). At north (right) end is Wreford vault of circa 1889. Front of rusticated volcanic ashlar with plain granite ashlar and including central limestone rectangular plaque inscribed in memory of Simon Lee Wreford (died 1889). The granite coping encloses a rectangular plot to rear which includes 3 reset limestone headstones facing forward and set shoulder to shoulder. All have shaped heads and are inscribed in memory to C19 members of the Lee family. The earliest to the right includes a carved cherub at the top over the memorial to Ann Wreford (died 1824). Leaning against the back of these headstone is another limestone headstone with shaped top inscribed in memory of Simon Wreford (died 1790), his wife Mary (died 1795) and their 3 infant children. Adjoining the Wreford vault to left is the Partridge vault of circa 1840. The granite ashlar front has a projecting moulded cornice and includes 3 limestone rectangular panels. The larger central panel is inscribed in memory of Thomas Partridge (died 1840) his wife Elizabeth (died 1797) and his son William (died 1830), and is signed Gould of Colebrooke. The granite coping encloses a rectangular plot to the rear which includes an arch-headed Gothic-style limestone headstone in memory of James Ebbels (died 1855) and his family. Adjoining the Partridge vault to the left is the Grueber memorial of circa 1834. It is built of snecked rusticated volcanic stone with plain granite cornice and central large granite plaque inscribed in memory of Jane Lady May (died 1834) and several members of the Grueber family. Adjoining the Grueber vault to the left is a section of retaining wall flanked by uninscribed granite slabs, a central section of rubble wall with limestone headstones between, in merry of William Tozer (died 1843) and his family to right and William Cornish (died 1810) to left. Adjoining to left is the stone vault of circa 1877. Built of granite ashlar it contains a limestone plaque inscribed in memory of Jams Stone of Furzedown (died 1872) and his family. The plot behind is covered by granite ashlar with raised concave central section. Adjoining the stone vault to the left is the Lee vault of circa 1882. It is built of mudstone ashlar with a central panel containing 2 nowy- headed limestone memorials recording the deaths of James Lee (died 1835) and his family. The coping enclosed a rectangular plot to rear. Adjoining to left a mudstone rubble wall continues a short distance to south side of churchyard.

Listing NGR: SS7700300001

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Legacy System number:: 435808
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.