Sherring Monument 3 Metres South Of Chancel Of Church Of St Michael is a Grade II* listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1985. Monument.
Sherring Monument 3 Metres South Of Chancel Of Church Of St Michael
- WRENN ID
- open-rood-tallow
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1985
- Type
- Monument
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
WINTERBOURNE STEEPLETON SY 68 NW STEEPLETON VILLAGE
8/155 Sherring Monument 3 metres south of Chancel of Church of St Michael
GV II*
Table-Tomb. Early C18. Stone, with ornamental end blocks, 2 raised and round-headed panels to each side, and hipped top block with heavily moulded cornice. End-blocks are richly carved with linked garlands, with skull-and- cross bones at one end and cherub at other. Inscriptions: left panel, "Here lieth the body of Henry Sherring Who Died Jan 1 17(33) Aetat 30. Also Katherine the Daughter of Henry and Ioan Sherring. Who Died June 3rd. 17(57)." Verse epitaph on right panel: "Here I repose, And find Relief, Waiting in Hope out of this Dust, To Rise and Live, Among the Just". An ornately sculptured, and-well-lettered example of this type of monument.
Listing NGR: SY6292489792
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