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Four Headstones West of Nave

A Grade II Listed Building in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.6639 / 52°39'49"N

Longitude: 0.1613 / 0°9'40"E

OS Eastings: 546264

OS Northings: 309544

OS Grid: TF462095

Mapcode National: GBR L1Q.ZJM

Mapcode Global: WHJPH.G91M

Plus Code: 9F42M576+HG

Entry Name: Four Headstones West of Nave

Listing Date: 1 May 1984

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1331678

English Heritage Legacy ID: 48489

ID on this website: 101331678

Location: St Peter and St Paul's Church, Wisbech, Fenland, Cambridgeshire, PE13

County: Cambridgeshire

District: Fenland

Civil Parish: Wisbech

Built-Up Area: Wisbech

Traditional County: Cambridgeshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cambridgeshire

Church of England Parish: Wisbech St Peter and St Paul

Church of England Diocese: Ely

Tagged with: Tombstone

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Description


The following buildings shall be added:

WISBECH
TF 4609
6/279 Four headstones,
west of nave
GV II

(i) Headstone, mid C18. Limestone. Architectural form of engaged Ionic
columns with entablature and segmental pediment having a figure of the
risen deceased in the tympanum. Below is an oval panel with inscription,
now indecipherable, in bas-relief with, in the upper spandrels, a crown
of honours and trumpet of victory and, in the tower spandrels, an hour
glass and skull of mortality.

(ii) Headstone, c.1767, probably by Samuel Andrews of Wisbech. Limestone.
Shaped head formed of C and S - leaf scrolls around a glory. Below
is a panel with inscription and Gothic, Italic and Roman lettering and
a border of bead and egg and dart moulding flanked by drops of fruit and
leaf ornament.

(iii) Headstone, Henry Adams, 1740. Limestone. Architectural form of engaged
Corinthian columns with entablature and shaped pediment with angel
trumpeter and two winged cherubs heads. Below is a circular panel for
the inscription with flowers and foliage to the upper spandrels and hour
glass and skull to tower.

(iv) Headstone, a member of Adams family, 1742, and similar to (iii).

F. Burgess, English Churchyard Memorials.


Listing NGR: TF4626609548

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