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Latitude: 50.6195 / 50°37'10"N
Longitude: -3.5672 / 3°34'1"W
OS Eastings: 289231
OS Northings: 81145
OS Grid: SX892811
Mapcode National: GBR P0.BVGG
Mapcode Global: FRA 37FF.D49
Plus Code: 9C2RJC9M+Q4
Entry Name: Wills Memorial About 700 Metres South East of Harcombe House
Listing Date: 28 April 1987
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1317863
English Heritage Legacy ID: 85271
ID on this website: 101317863
Location: Teignbridge, Devon, TQ13
County: Devon
District: Teignbridge
Civil Parish: Chudleigh
Traditional County: Devon
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Devon
Church of England Parish: Chudleigh St Martin and St Mary
Church of England Diocese: Exeter
Tagged with: Memorial
CHUDLEIGH
SX 88 SE
1/17 Wills memorial about 700m South
east of Harcombe House
GV II
Memorial comprising a table tomb encircled by a low stone rubble wall and iron
railings. 1921. Granite.
An idiosyncratic memorial to Edward Chaning Wills, Bart (q.v. Harcombe House) sited
on unconsecrated ground on a hill top rich in prehistoric cairns. The memorial
combines a conventional table tomb with a low drystone granite rubble wall
reminiscent of a prehistoric memorial, the whole surrounded by iron railings. The
table tomb, erected on a flinty mound is a large dressed granite slab set on 6 rough-
hewn granite blocks. The Wills armorial bearings and crest are carved in high relief
on the granite slab with the text "As God Wills". The inscription, carved in relief
in Lombardic script on the sides of the slab, reads " here lieth the body of Edward
Chaning Wills, second baronet, of Harcombe, Chudleigh, Devon born 25 April 1861 died
14 October 1921". The low granite wall surrounding the mound is designed to look
like an antiquity. The perimeter fence of plain iron railings wih pointed finials
has a single pedestrian gate between iron posts. The trees surrounding the memorial
suggest that it was originally associated with special planting.
The funeral is said locally to have been conducted as a pagan ceremony with a
procession from Harcombe House and the ritual slaughter of Wills' dogs and horse.
Listing NGR: SX8923181145
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