Description

SJ 51 SE UPTON MAGNA C.P. UPTON MAGNA

4/105 Group of 6 chest tombs
- approximately 15 metres
to south of chancel of
Church of St Lucia

GV II

Group of 6 chest tombs. Late C18 or early C19. Grey sandstone ashlar.
Lloyd tomb to east with raised panels, fluted corner piers and chamfered
top with reeded edges; Humphries tomb to north has paired oval side panels
with carved rosettes and flanking panelled pilaster strips, oval end panels
with carved rosettes, and moulded cornice to flat top; central tomb has
2-bay open side panels with central reeded pier, carved end piers, recessed
oval end panels with central carved rosette and carved husks in spandrels,
and moulded cornice to chamfered top; Ellsmere tomb to south has 2-bay
oval side panels with carved spandrels, fluted corner piers, recessed oval
end panels with carved rosettes, and chamfered top with panelled gables;
Ellsmere tomb to south-west has paired moulded square side panels with
central and flanking fluted pilaster strips raised oval end panels and
moulded cornice to chamfered top with panelled gables; chest tomb to far
south-west with moulded plinth, paired raised and fielded side panels,
flanking fluted pilaster strips, raised and fielded square end panels,
and moulded cornice to flat top.

Listing NGR: SJ5534812451

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26557896

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Recommended Books

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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)