Monument To Phoebe Hessell In Churchyard Of Church Of St Nicholas is a Grade II listed building in the Brighton and Hove local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 August 1999. Monument.
Monument To Phoebe Hessell In Churchyard Of Church Of St Nicholas
- WRENN ID
- brooding-foundation-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brighton and Hove
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 August 1999
- Type
- Monument
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
BRIGHTON
TQ3004SE DYKE ROAD 577-1/39/1169 (East side) Monument to Phoebe Hessell in churchyard of the Church of St Nicholas of Myra
GV II
Includes: Monument to Phoebe Hessell in churchyard of Church of St Nicholas CHURCH STREET. Headstone and footstone to Phoebe Hessell. c1821. Stone. 13m south of the door of the south chapel. In 1728 Phoebe Smith fell in love with William Golding, a soldier. She enlisted in the Fifth Foot Regiment to remain with him, and spent 17 years in the army disguised as a man. After Golding's death, Phoebe moved to Brighton and married William Hessell in about 1769; he died in 1792 and she spent much of the rest of her life, until the age of 108, hawking fish, gingerbread and suchlike in the streets of Brighton. Recent research casts doubt on her story but the Northumberland Fusiliers believed it enough to restore the grave in the 1970s.
Listing NGR: TQ3077104488
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