Group of three chest tombs approximately 33m south of the south porch, Church of St Peter and St Paul is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 June 1986. Tomb.
Group of three chest tombs approximately 33m south of the south porch, Church of St Peter and St Paul
- WRENN ID
- fading-wall-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 June 1986
- Type
- Tomb
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
All are of dressed limestone and are rectangular in plan with weathered, hipped slab tops.
The southernmost tomb, to members of the Moore family, dates from the late C17 and early C18. It has a moulded plinth with fielded pilasters to the corners and the centre of the north and south sides. Between the pilasters to the north and south faces are inscribed slate panels with floral ornament. The cornice is moulded and the frieze has floral emblems set in small square panels.
Some 4m to the north-east is a late-C18 chest tomb to the Greenhill family. It has pilasters with incised panels and there are two inscribed lias panels of to both the north and south faces, although one of the southern panels is missing. The cornice has a moulded edge as does the slab top. The inscriptions are largely weathered away, but the names of Sarah and Benjamin Greenhill and the date of 1786 are discernible.
The third tomb, a monument to the Board family, is located immediately to the north-east. It has mid and corner pilasters with roll mouldings and plain central panels; inscribed fielded panels to the north and south faces. The earliest decipherable date to the north face is 1758 for Mary Board; the inscriptions to the south face are largely illegible. The west face has a panel with a shaped cartouche with carved foliate decoration above. The cornice, which is broken (2012), is plain.
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