Johns Headstone About 20 Metres South Of The Tower Of The Church Of St Leonard is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 January 1986. Headstone.
Johns Headstone About 20 Metres South Of The Tower Of The Church Of St Leonard
- WRENN ID
- late-courtyard-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 January 1986
- Type
- Headstone
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Johns headstone, located about 20 meters south of the tower of the Church of St Leonard, is an early 19th-century slate headstone. It commemorates Joseph Johns, who died in 1813. The headstone features scratch mouldings around the border and forms a round-headed arch with rustic trumpeting angels in the spandrels. Below the inscription, there is a three-stanza verse that includes the lines: "In pain and sickness long I lay/My flesh and lungs consumed away/Once like a flower I did bloom/But now lie mouldred in this tomb." This headstone is a fine example of local slate-cutting with a personal verse.
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