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Latitude: 50.7665 / 50°45'59"N
Longitude: -3.357 / 3°21'25"W
OS Eastings: 304398
OS Northings: 97200
OS Grid: SY043972
Mapcode National: GBR P5.850H
Mapcode Global: FRA 37V2.3YS
Plus Code: 9C2RQJ8V+H6
Entry Name: Hughes Chest Tomb Approximately 6 Metres South South West of the Tower of the Church of St Mary
Listing Date: 24 October 1988
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1098088
English Heritage Legacy ID: 86988
ID on this website: 101098088
Location: St Mary's Church, Whimple, East Devon, EX5
County: Devon
District: East Devon
Civil Parish: Whimple
Built-Up Area: Whimple
Traditional County: Devon
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Devon
Church of England Parish: Whimple St Mary
Church of England Diocese: Exeter
Tagged with: Chest tomb
WHIMPLE THE SQUARE,
SY 0497-0597
10/229 Hughes Chest tomb approximately 6
- metres south-south-west of the
tower of the Church of St Mary
GV II
Chest tomb. Dated 1872 in memory Mary and William Hughes. Bathstone ashlar. Chest
tomb in Tudor Gothic style. Rectangular in plan on moulded plinth and lid has
moulded edges and low pitched ridge. Clasping pilasters on the corner have trefoil-
headed panels and eacn side contains a Tudor arch panel. Inscription on north panel
in Gothic lettering records the deatns of Mary Hughes in 1872 and her husband
William, a general, in 1897.
Listing NGR: SY0439897200
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