Entrance Walls and Railings to Holy Trinity Church
ENTRANCE WALLS AND RAILINGS TO HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1029259
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Entrance Walls and Railings to Holy Trinity Church
- Statutory Address:
- ENTRANCE WALLS AND RAILINGS TO HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1029259
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Entrance Walls and Railings to Holy Trinity Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- ENTRANCE WALLS AND RAILINGS TO HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, HIGH STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- ENTRANCE WALLS AND RAILINGS TO HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Guildford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 99877 49513
Details
SU 9949NE GUILDFORD HIGH STREET (South Side) 5/106 Entrance Walls and Railings to Holy Trinity Church GV II Entrance walls and railings. Central gate 1712, outer gates 1813. Brown brick retaining wall with cement-rendered end piers, panelled, and under gabled tops. Wrought-iron gates and railings above. Plinth retaining walls approximately 1½ metres high with gate piers to ends rising up to 3½ metres. Stone coping to plinth walls under spear-finialled railings with scrolled standard panels at intervals along the front. Paired gates leading to a flight of steps at the east end of the church with scrolled work under central finial and return railings attaching to wall of church. Elaborate double gates to centre of railings facing the High Street with urn finials on flanking scroll work standards and twisted finials on scrolled crests crowning each of the double gates. Further gateway to west end of church under scrolled and arched overthrow with central lantern. Brick piers at ends of railings flank the steps up to the west end of the church. Photographs in N.M.R. PEVSNER: BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND, SURREY (1971) p.272 C. K. F. BROWN: TREASURES OF THE SURREY CHURCH (1943).
Listing NGR: SU9987549513
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 288971
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Brown, C K F, Treasures of the Surrey Church, (1943)
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I Rev. by Cherry, The Buildings of England: Surrey, (1971), 272
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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