Listed Building record TQ 54 SE 144 - PRENDERGAST AND DE ROLL CHEST TOMBS IMMEDIATELY WEST OF THE PORCH OF THE CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1800 to 1832

Location

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

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
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


English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

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Record last edited

Feb 19 2008 12:26PM