Description

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5141
TF 2804
41/608

THORNEY
ABBEY PLACE
Churchyard Wall, Church of St Mary and St Botolph (Thorney Abbey)

II
GV

2.
Churchyard boundary wall. Circa 1860. Local gault brick. A large irregular enclosure.
Wall on south side is plain but to Church Street, Abbey Place, the rear of Cheriton
House and partly to Thorney Park has a plinth with weathered brick offset cap and
weathered brick coping, also a horizontal band of recesses of cross form in the upper
part. The wall has a splayed junction at the corner of Church Street and Abbey on
which is fixed a large stone C18 tombstone with two inscription panels in moulded
arched frames with carving above including cherubs heads. Another panel of carved
stone set above tombstone in a merlon. Churchyard wall listed for group value with
Church of St Mary and St Botolph (Thorney Abbey) (q.v.).

Listing NGR: TF2820004233

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26420319

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)