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Table Tombs - Grade II listed structure


Table Tombs, St. Chad's Church Yard


   
Table Tombs, St. Chad's Church Yard
Table Tombs, St. Chad's Church Yard




 

Heritage England, official list entry

Location   St. Chad's Church Yard, Farndon - SJ 41326 54472

Year listed   28 November 1984

Detail    Adjacent Table Tombs in Churchyard
(south of St Chad's Church, east of path to Church Porch).

Pair of adjacent table tombs, early 18thc, of yellow sandstone. The inscriptions are badly weathered; that on north tomb includes 1726 as a date of death. West ends of tombs have recessed round-headed panels; that to north contains an hourglass, that to south a skull and crossbones above an inscription Mors S... Omnium.

North side of north tomb has a square central panel containing an encircled quatrefoil in a lozenge with a vertical panel right and a decayed panel left. The east end of each tomb has a fielded panel; south side of south tomb has three fielded panels in bolection moulded borders.

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