Description

TQ 55 41 SPELDHURST SPELDHURST HILL (north side),
SPELDHURST
12/572 Row of 3 May headstones approx
20m north east of the chancel
of the Church of St Mary the
Virgin
GV II

Row of 3 adjacent headstones. All are C18 in memory of members of the May
family. All are upright sandstone slabs standing between 400-500mm high. All
have shaped heads. The heads of the right two are inscribed with crossed
arrows. All 3 have fielded panels. The left one is inscribed in Roman serif
capitals, the other two include lower case letters. The left one is
illegible. The centre one records the death of Richard May in 1755 and the
right one records the death of his wife Sarah in 1761.

Listing NGR: TQ5539041470

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26534401

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Recommended Books

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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
• 
  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)