Description

BURLESCOMBE BURLESCOMBE
ST 01 NE
5/28 Pair of adjacent Brown chest
- tombs approximately 14 metres
south of aisle of the
Church of St Mary
GV II
2 adjacent chest tombs, one dated 1793 in memory of John Brown, the other dated 1797
in memory of Margaret Brown. Both have grey basalt lids and are made of roughly-
coursed blocks of volcanic stone rubble. The 2 adjacent chest tombs are very
similar. They have plain flat lids and plain walls. The lids are inscribed. The
southern chest tomb is the earlier of the 2. Its lid is inscribed in Roman serif
upper and lower case lettering and this records the death of John Brown in 1793.
There is also a Hamstone plaque in the west end of this tomb in memory of John
Brown's sons. The northern tomb lid is inscribed in italic lettering and the
inscription records the death of Margaret Brown in 1797.

Listing NGR: ST0761716605

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26440622

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)