Listed Building: PRENDERGAST AND DE ROLL CHEST TOMBS IMMEDIATELY WEST OF THE PORCH OF THE CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE (1277727)

Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 1356, 11, 12
Date assigned 24 August 1990
Date last amended

Description

TQ 56 43 BIDBOROUGH HIGH STREET (east side) 11/12 Prendergast and de Roll Chest tombs immediately west of the porch of the Church of St Lawrence GV II Pair of chest tombs. Early C19. Freestone. The northern chest is against the south wall of the church: a rectangular chest with moulded corner pilasters and a coped lid, commemorating Dorathy [sic] Prendergast, died 1821. Immediately south of it a low sarcophagus with a steeply-coped lid commemorates Louis Robert Roll, Count of the Holy Roman Empire, died 1813. Skinner transcribes the long verse on the tomb including: "He stood unchanged at Fortune's bitter frown,/that bore the House of Bourbon down;/He cheered its exile, gained its just applause,/And died at last a martyr to its cause." (Skinner, pp.22-3) Skinner, F.A., Bidborough, a Parish History (1986 edn.). Listing NGR: TQ5650743194

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  • Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.

Map

Location

Grid reference TQ 5650 4319 (point)
Map sheet TQ54SE
Civil Parish BIDBOROUGH, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT

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Nov 16 2006 5:21PM