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Latitude: 50.7066 / 50°42'23"N
Longitude: -2.5265 / 2°31'35"W
OS Eastings: 362920
OS Northings: 89799
OS Grid: SY629897
Mapcode National: GBR PW.G1R9
Mapcode Global: FRA 57L6.PK8
Plus Code: 9C2VPF4F+MC
Entry Name: Sherring Monument 3 Metres South of Chancel of Church of St Michael
Listing Date: 20 May 1985
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1279268
English Heritage Legacy ID: 403856
ID on this website: 101279268
Location: St Michael and All Angel's Church, Winterbourne Steepleton, Dorset, DT2
County: Dorset
Civil Parish: Winterbourne Steepleton
Built-Up Area: Winterbourne Abbas
Traditional County: Dorset
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Dorset
Church of England Parish: The Winterbournes
Church of England Diocese: Salisbury
Tagged with: Monument
WINTERBOURNE STEEPLETON
SY 68 NW STEEPLETON VILLAGE
8/155 Sherring Monument 3
metres south of Chancel
of Church of St Michael
GV II*
Table-Tomb. Early C18. Stone, with ornamental end blocks, 2 raised and
round-headed panels to each side, and hipped top block with heavily moulded
cornice. End-blocks are richly carved with linked garlands, with skull-and-
cross bones at one end and cherub at other. Inscriptions: left panel, "Here
lieth the body of Henry Sherring Who Died Jan 1 17(33) Aetat 30. Also
Katherine the Daughter of Henry and Ioan Sherring. Who Died June 3rd. 17(57)."
Verse epitaph on right panel: "Here I repose, And find Relief, Waiting in
Hope out of this Dust, To Rise and Live, Among the Just". An ornately
sculptured, and-well-lettered example of this type of monument.
Listing NGR: SY6292489792
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