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Latitude: 51.1666 / 51°9'59"N
Longitude: 0.2371 / 0°14'13"E
OS Eastings: 556507
OS Northings: 143194
OS Grid: TQ565431
Mapcode National: GBR MPC.SXH
Mapcode Global: VHHQ6.2Y62
Plus Code: 9F32568P+JR
Entry Name: Prendergast and De Roll Chest Tombs Immediately West of the Porch of the Church of St Lawrence
Listing Date: 24 August 1990
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1277727
English Heritage Legacy ID: 430582
ID on this website: 101277727
Location: St Lawrence's Church, Bidborough, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN3
County: Kent
District: Tunbridge Wells
Civil Parish: Bidborough
Built-Up Area: Southborough
Traditional County: Kent
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Kent
Church of England Parish: St Peter with Christ Church and St Matthew Southborough and St Lawrence Bidborough
Church of England Diocese: Rochester
Tagged with: Chest tomb
TQ 56 43 BIDBOROUGH HIGH STREET (east side)
11/12 Prendergast and de Roll Chest
tombs immediately west of the
porch of the Church of
St Lawrence
GV II
Pair of chest tombs. Early C19. Freestone. The northern chest is against
the south wall of the church: a rectangular chest with moulded corner
pilasters and a coped lid, commemorating Dorathy [sic] Prendergast, died 1821.
Immediately south of it a low sarcophagus with a steeply-coped lid
commemorates Louis Robert Roll, Count of the Holy Roman Empire, died 1813.
Skinner transcribes the long verse on the tomb including: "He stood unchanged
at Fortune's bitter frown,/that bore the House of Bourbon down;/He cheered its
exile, gained its just applause,/And died at last a martyr to its cause."
(Skinner, pp.22-3)
Skinner, F.A., Bidborough, a Parish History (1986 edn.).
Listing NGR: TQ5650743194
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