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Latitude: 50.9091 / 50°54'32"N
Longitude: -4.5544 / 4°33'15"W
OS Eastings: 220514
OS Northings: 115288
OS Grid: SS205152
Mapcode National: GBR K2.R02C
Mapcode Global: FRA 16BP.ZF8
Plus Code: 9C2QWC5W+J7
Entry Name: Manning Chest Tomb About 17 Metres South of the Chancel of the Church of St Morwenna
Listing Date: 9 September 1985
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1328565
English Heritage Legacy ID: 64908
ID on this website: 101328565
Location: St Morwenna and St John the Baptist's Church, Morwenstow, Cornwall, EX23
County: Cornwall
Civil Parish: Morwenstow
Traditional County: Cornwall
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cornwall
Church of England Parish: Morwenstow
Church of England Diocese: Truro
Tagged with: Chest tomb
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MORWENSTOW,
MORWENSTOW
Manning Chest Tomb about 17 metres south of the chancel of the Church of St Morwenna
GV II*
Chest tomb. Early C17, commemorating John Manning, died 1601. Granite. Narrow
chest tomb raised on moulded granite step on rectangular granite base. Renaissance
style. Chest has chamfered plinth and granite corner shafts on bulbous feet, cyma
recta moulded granite lid. Inscription in large capitals without serifs is carved
in relief on side panels and reads across the panels: "Here liet John Manning of
Stamberie Gen(t) who died without issue the VI day of August 1601". The initials
of John Manning and his wife appear at Stanbury Manor (q.v.). The Manning tomb is
illustrated in the Hawker memorial window in the church (q.v.) The Reverend R S
Hawker (q.v. vicarage and church), poet, antiquary and vicar of Morwenstow 1835-
1874, constructed a typically dramatic story about the tomb which he presented as
fact in Footprints of Former Men in Far Cornwall (1870).
Listing NGR: SS2051415288
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