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Latitude: 50.8252 / 50°49'30"N
Longitude: -0.1447 / 0°8'40"W
OS Eastings: 530771
OS Northings: 104488
OS Grid: TQ307044
Mapcode National: GBR JP4.08Q
Mapcode Global: FRA B6LX.FGG
Plus Code: 9C2XRVG4+34
Entry Name: Monument to Phoebe Hessell in Churchyard of Church of St Nicholas
Listing Date: 26 August 1999
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1380391
English Heritage Legacy ID: 480504
ID on this website: 101380391
Location: St Nicholas' Church, Brighton and Hove, West Sussex, BN1
County: The City of Brighton and Hove
Electoral Ward/Division: St. Peter's and North Laine
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Brighton and Hove
Traditional County: Sussex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): East Sussex
Church of England Parish: BrightonSt Nicholas
Church of England Diocese: Chichester
Tagged with: Monument
BRIGHTON
TQ3004SE DYKE ROAD
577-1/39/1169 (East side)
Monument to Phoebe Hessell in
churchyard of the Church of St
Nicholas of Myra
GV II
Includes: Monument to Phoebe Hessell in churchyard of Church
of St Nicholas CHURCH STREET.
Headstone and footstone to Phoebe Hessell. c1821. Stone. 13m
south of the door of the south chapel. In 1728 Phoebe Smith
fell in love with William Golding, a soldier. She enlisted in
the Fifth Foot Regiment to remain with him, and spent 17 years
in the army disguised as a man. After Golding's death, Phoebe
moved to Brighton and married William Hessell in about 1769;
he died in 1792 and she spent much of the rest of her life,
until the age of 108, hawking fish, gingerbread and suchlike
in the streets of Brighton. Recent research casts doubt on her
story but the Northumberland Fusiliers believed it enough to
restore the grave in the 1970s.
Listing NGR: TQ3077104488
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