SUNDIAL, PIERS AND WALL TO WEST OF CHAPEL

SUNDIAL, PIERS AND WALL TO WEST OF CHAPEL, B6314

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1025169
Date first listed:: 18-Nov-1985
List Entry Name:: SUNDIAL, PIERS AND WALL TO WEST OF CHAPEL
Statutory Address:: SUNDIAL, PIERS AND WALL TO WEST OF CHAPEL, B6314

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1025169
Date first listed:: 18-Nov-1985
List Entry Name:: SUNDIAL, PIERS AND WALL TO WEST OF CHAPEL
Statutory Address 1:: SUNDIAL, PIERS AND WALL TO WEST OF CHAPEL, B6314

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

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

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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Corrections and minor amendments

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: SUNDIAL, PIERS AND WALL TO WEST OF CHAPEL, B6314

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

District:: Gateshead (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: NZ 17162 58272

Details

NZ 15 NE WHICKHAM B6314 (north side) Gibside Estate

10/114 Sundial, piers and wall to west of chapel.

G.V. II

Sundial: late C18/early C19. Sandstone and bronze.Cyma moulded plinth to baluster decorated with garlands and acanthus leaves; moulded stone slab holds circular bronze dial engraved OMNIS SPRITUS LAUDET DOMINUM. Piers and wall around sundial: 2 circular piers, with cornice band and cyma coping, flank entrance to enclosure formed by dwarf ashlar wall, with low-sloping coping, from which railings have been removed.

Listing NGR: NZ1716258272

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 303879
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

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