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© Mr Michael Blandford
IoE Number:
267723
Location:
HOOD FAMILY MONUMENT, 24 METRES SOUTH OF NAVE, CHURCH OF ST LEONARD, HIGH STREET (north side)
BUTLEIGH, MENDIP, SOMERSET
Photographer:
Mr Michael Blandford
Date Photographed:
10 September 2002
Date listed:
13 January 1986
Date of last amendment:
13 January 1986
Grade
II
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BUTLEIGH CP HIGH STREET (North side)
ST53SW
11/10 Hood family monument, 24 metres
south of nave, Church of St.
- Leonard
GV II
Chest tomb. Late C18/early C19. Dressed stone. Oblong chest on a moulded plinth, entablature with triglyphs, guttae and
paterae dentil cornicei slab top with fluted ends and scroll decoration. Earliest inscription to John Periam of Wootton
House, 1788; though monument principally intended for Hood family; inscription to Capt. Alexander Hood of 1798; and to
Admiral Lord Hood of Avalon. Further C19 inscriptions.