Chest tomb at 6 metres south of west end of Church of Saint Michael is a Grade II listed building in the Teignbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1986. Monument, tomb.
Chest tomb at 6 metres south of west end of Church of Saint Michael
- WRENN ID
- hushed-shingle-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Teignbridge
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 July 1986
- Type
- Monument, tomb
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The chest tomb, dated 1791, is located 6 metres south of the west end of the Church of Saint Michael in Trusham. It features a ledger stone made of Ashburton marble, which is a local limestone. The stone is rectangular except for the west end, which is carved into a scroll shape. The ledger stone overhangs an unmoulded granite ashlar base made up of four stone blocks resting on 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 inscription has suffered some erosion due to weathering, historic breaks, and minor loss of fabric at the edges of the slab, but the dates and names have been confirmed through local burial records. In 2020, the tomb was reordered to reset the broken ledger slab and repair the pointing in the fabric below, which revealed that the core of the tomb was filled with rubble and fragments of brick and tile.
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