HEADSTONE OF HANNAH TWYNNOY APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES SOUTH OF EAST END OF ABBEY CHURCH

HEADSTONE OF HANNAH TWYNNOY APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES SOUTH OF EAST END OF ABBEY CHURCH, MARKET CROSS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1269323
Date first listed:: 01-Jul-1976
List Entry Name:: HEADSTONE OF HANNAH TWYNNOY APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES SOUTH OF EAST END OF ABBEY CHURCH
Statutory Address:: HEADSTONE OF HANNAH TWYNNOY APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES SOUTH OF EAST END OF ABBEY CHURCH, MARKET CROSS

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1269323
Date first listed:: 01-Jul-1976
List Entry Name:: HEADSTONE OF HANNAH TWYNNOY APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES SOUTH OF EAST END OF ABBEY CHURCH
Statutory Address 1:: HEADSTONE OF HANNAH TWYNNOY APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES SOUTH OF EAST END OF ABBEY CHURCH, MARKET CROSS

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: HEADSTONE OF HANNAH TWYNNOY APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES SOUTH OF EAST END OF ABBEY CHURCH, MARKET CROSS

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Malmesbury
National Grid Reference:: ST 93293 87269

Details

MALMESBURY

ST9387 MARKET CROSS 758-1/4/246 (North side) 01/07/76 Headstone of Hannah Twynnoy approx 40 metres south of east end of Abbey Church

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Headstone. Dated 1703. Inscribed to Hannah Twynnoy, a servant at the White Lion Inn (now No.8 Gloucester Street, qv) who was killed by a tiger from a travelling menagerie lodged in the back premises of the inn: IN BLOOM OF LIFE/ SHE'S SNATCHD FROM HENCE/ SHE HAD NOT ROOM/ TO MAKE DEFENCE/ FOR TYGER FIERCE/ TOOK LIFE AWAY/ AND HERE SHE LIES/ IN A BED OF CLAY/ UNTIL THE RESURRECTION DAY.

Listing NGR: ST9329387269

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Legacy System number:: 460903
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.