Description

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TORTWORTH
Canopied seat and flanking walls, Memorial to the Countess of Ducie, 25 yards east of chancel of St. Leonard's Church

GV
II
Memorial to Julia, Countess of Ducie, died 1895. By W.D. Caröe in a Jacobean style. Consists of a canopied seat and flanking quadrant walls. Coursed rubble quadrant walls with moulded cornice, ashlar end piers and ball finials, and a low ashlar seat. The walls are swept up to the centre: recessed seat against a rubble wall with an inscribed plaque; arched canopy with decorated archivolt, pilaster strips; gabled with obelisk finials and carved Ducie arms.

Listing NGR: ST7047293340

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26408767

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Recommended Books

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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)