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Gray's Monument

A Grade II* Listed Building in Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.5345 / 51°32'4"N

Longitude: -0.5915 / 0°35'29"W

OS Eastings: 497787

OS Northings: 182667

OS Grid: SU977826

Mapcode National: GBR F7V.M8L

Mapcode Global: VHFT2.PPMK

Plus Code: 9C3XGCM5+Q9

Entry Name: Gray's Monument

Listing Date: 23 September 1955

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1124346

English Heritage Legacy ID: 44204

ID on this website: 101124346

Location: Stoke Green, Buckinghamshire, SL2

County: Buckinghamshire

Civil Parish: Stoke Poges

Built-Up Area: Slough

Traditional County: Buckinghamshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Buckinghamshire

Church of England Parish: Stoke Poges

Church of England Diocese: Oxford

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Description


SU 98 SE STOKE POGES CHURCH LANE

8/607 Gray's Monument

23.9.55
- II*

1799 by James Wyatt. Erected by order of the then owner of Stoke Park,
John Penn, grandson of William Penn. Large stone pedestal with panels inscribed
with verses from Gray's 'Elegy'. On it a sarcaphagus with strigillated
side panels.


Listing NGR: SU9778782667

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