Buxton Tomb In Churchyard At Old Church Of St James 40 Metres West Of Tower is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. Tomb.

Buxton Tomb In Churchyard At Old Church Of St James 40 Metres West Of Tower

WRENN ID
long-casement-root
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Hertfordshire
Country
England
Type
Tomb
Source
Historic England listing

Description

TL 31NW STANSTEAD ABBOTS ROYDON ROAD (north side) Tarbets Hill 5/49 Buxton tomb in churchyard at Old Church of St James 40 metres W of tower

GV II

Churchyard tomb with 3 similar monuments on top. 1881 probably by Waterhouse to Fowell Arthur Buxton, on 1905 to Rachel Jane Buxton, and 1908 to Thomas Fowell Buxton of Easneye both to same design as the first. The first in red granite, the other two in white marble. Austere design repeated in each: on a plain plinth a heavy deep ledger stone with an offset base carved with a running scallop design in low relief. The top of the ledger has a flat cross defined by simple sloped weathering S meeting in the angles. Alfred Waterhouse built Easneye for T F Buxton in 1868-9 together with a new church, school and many estate buildings.

Listing NGR: TL3987811043

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