Listed Building: FREE STANDING WALL MONUMENTS TO MAYHEW/GARRETT FAMILIES AND WALL MONUMENT AND 5 CHEST TOMBS ABOUT 30 METRES SOUTH WEST OF CHURCH OF ST LAURENCE (1085368)
Grade | II |
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Authority | |
Volume/Map/Item | 1413, 6, 205 |
Date assigned | 04 February 1988 |
Date last amended |
Description
RAMSGATE HIGH STREET TR 3665 SE ST. LAWRENCE (north-west side) 6/205 Free standing wall monuments to Mayhew/ Garrett families and wall monument and 5 chest tombs about 30 metres south west of Church of St. Laurence GV II Free standing wall monuments to Mayhew/Garrett families. Late C18 and early C19. Stock brick wall, rendered, with stone plaques and iron rails. Five pedimented plaques with Coats of Arms in pediments, 2 with incised Doric pilasters, 3 with fluted Ionic pilasters set against a rendered wall, about 6 feet high and 20 feet long, with a paved forecourt, enclosed with spear-headed rails with urn finialed principals (some panels missing, but lying against the monuments). Chest tomb to Thomas Lindsey jnr, d.1810, about 5 metres west of Mayhew/Garret monument. Moulded base with large baluster corner piers, reeded and incised panels and moulded and inscribed top slab with Arms. Railed. Tomb chest about 3 metres south of Mayhew/Garrett monument, with large baluster corner piers and moulded oval incised side panels. Top slab inscribed, but illegible, with Arms. Spear headed rails with urn finial principals, slightly damaged by tree growth. Wall monument to Hannah Goatley, d.1749, restored 1931 by Rev. George Henniker-Gotley. Brick tabernacle background , originally rendered, with marble monument, with simple apron, inscription plaque, fluted pilasters and triglyph frieze to cornice, with obelisk background and urn finial to relief of 2 putti lifting drapes falling from baldacchino from Arms cartouche. Tomb chest to George Rainier Jnr. d.1762, about 5 metres east of Mayhew/Garrett monument. Moulded plinth to chest with squat creeded and fluted baluster corner piers, with chamfered curving raised and fielded side panels and moulded top slab inscribed and with relief of flaming urn and olive branch. Originally railed. Railed tomb chest about 5 metres east of Mayhew/Garrett monument. Early C19. Chamfered plinth, with quatrefoil frieze to cusped pointed arcaded side panels with moulded top slab. Spiked rails with lobed spiked principals. Tomb chest to Elizabeth Countess Dowager of Huntingdon (d.1846, adjacent to the last. Unrailed, on platform, with cusped arcaded side panels and moulded and inscribed top slab.
Listing NGR: TR3698465306
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Sources (1)
- SKE16160 Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.
Location
Grid reference | TR 3698 6530 (point) |
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Map sheet | TR36NE |
Civil Parish | RAMSGATE, THANET, KENT |
Related Monuments/Buildings (1)
Record last edited
Nov 16 2006 9:41AM