Description

ASHTEAD ASHTEAD PARK
TQ 1857-1957
8/19
Row of 7 headstones and 4 footstones
from approx. 17 to approx. 25 metres
south of Church of St Giles

GV II

Row of 7 monumental headstones on north-south line (interrupted between the
1st and 2nd). Mostly mid C18. All of limestone. Commemorating (from left to
right):
(1) Mary Bovey (d.1746 [?]): shaped top, carved skull-and-cross-bones;
(2) John Syms (d.1787): shaped top with fan, two 4-line verses of doggerel;
(3) Alice Syms (d.1785): similar to (2), including verses; footstone to rear
inscribed "AS 1785";
(4) John Symes (d.1738): crude segmental pediment with consoles, carved skull;
matching footstone to rear inscribed "JS 1738"
(5) Benjamin Symes (d.1742, aged 27): similar to (4) but with more emphatic
design, and couplet "Young men of strength behold and see
Just in my prime Death conquered me";
matching footstone to rear insribed "BS 1742";
(6) Phebe Symes (d.1755): large stone, elaborately shaped top with scrolls, skull-
and-cross-bones;
(7) Mrs Mary Hunt (d.1747): similar to (6); footstone to rear inscribed
"MH 1747".

Listing NGR: TQ1929357970

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26483614

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Recommended Books

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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)