Chest tomb at 6 metres south of west end of Church of Saint Michael

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TRUSHAM CHURCH LANE Chest tomb at 6 metres south of west end of Church of Saint Michael

GV II Chest tomb dated 1791 immediately due south of the porch to the Church of Saint Michael.

The tomb has an Ashburton marble (local limestone) ledger stone, rectangular except for its west, top end, which is carved to a scroll shape. The ledger stone overhangs an unmoulded granite ashlar base comprising of four stone blocks over a compacted mortar foundation. The inscription on the ledger stone reads:

‘Here lieth y b[ody] of James Ball [,] son of John [&] Joanna Ball of Bremble Who died [y] 10[th] Day of April In y year of o[ur] Lord 179[?] Aged 66 years’

The text is partially eroded by weathering, historic breaks and some minor loss of fabric at the edges of the slab, though dates and names have been confirmed from local burial records.

The tomb was reordered in 2020 to reset the broken ledger slab and repair pointing within the fabric below, which revealed that the core of the tomb was filled with rubble and brick and tile fragments.

Listing NGR: SX8558682164