List entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: WALLS ENCLOSING FRIENDS BURIAL GROUND
List entry Number: 1211540
Location
WALLS ENCLOSING FRIENDS BURIAL GROUND
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
| County |
District |
District Type |
Parish |
| Cornwall | Unitary Authority | St. Minver Highlands |
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II
Date first listed: 26-Jun-1987
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 351582
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List entry Description
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Reasons for Designation
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History
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Details
SW 97 NE ST MINVER
HIGHLANDS
4/259 Walls enclosing Friends
- Burial Ground
II
Walls to Quaker burial ground. Circa 1690, partly rebuilt in 1883 (date stone).
Stone rubble walls with slate coping enclosing burial ground which is square-on-plan.
Entrance near centre of front (north-east) elevation.
High enclosing wall with square corner piers and pair of square entrance piers with
moulded caps. Slate commemorative plaque on front left. Burial ground planted with
mature deciduous trees and partly overgrown.
Maclean records that there were a considerable number of Quakers in St. Minver at the
end of the C17. In circa 1690 a meeting house and small burial ground were erected
on the site. By 1879 there was no trace of the meeting house and in 1883 the
enclosing wall to the disused burial ground was partly rebuilt.
Maclean, Sir John Parochial and Family History of the Deanery of
Trigg Minor in the County of Cornwall.
1879 vol III
Listing NGR: SW9548477876
Selected Sources
- Book Reference - Author: Sir John Maclean - Title: Parochial and Family History of the Deanery of Trigg Minor in the County of Cornwall - Date: 1879 - Volume: 3
National Grid Reference: SW 95484 77876
Map
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