Listed Building: COMPORT AND BAKER TOMBS 5 YARDS TO SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST JAMES (1085769)

Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 1797, 2, 7
Date assigned 14 November 1986
Date last amended

Description

COOLING CP TO 77 NE 2/7 Comport and Baker tombs 5 yards to south of Church of St. James. GV II Row of ten childrens' body blocks, with four footstones, and one headstone and three larger body blocks. Early C19. Stone. Insribed to children of the Comport and Baker families. Known locally as 'Pip's Graves' as they are generally taken to have been the prototypes for the graves on the first page of Charles Dickens' 'Great Expectations'. Listing NGR: TQ7636776264

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

Map

Location

Grid reference TQ 7563 7593 (point)
Map sheet TQ77NE
Civil Parish COOLING, MEDWAY, KENT

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Record last edited

Nov 15 2006 5:35PM