Gatepiers, Gates and Attached Walled Garden to East of Church of St Mary
GATEPIERS, GATES AND ATTACHED WALLED GARDEN TO EAST OF CHURCH OF ST MARY, MERTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1046524
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Gatepiers, Gates and Attached Walled Garden to East of Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- GATEPIERS, GATES AND ATTACHED WALLED GARDEN TO EAST OF CHURCH OF ST MARY, MERTON ROAD
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/00236/11
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1046524
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Gatepiers, Gates and Attached Walled Garden to East of Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- GATEPIERS, GATES AND ATTACHED WALLED GARDEN TO EAST OF CHURCH OF ST MARY, MERTON ROAD
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:
- GATEPIERS, GATES AND ATTACHED WALLED GARDEN TO EAST OF CHURCH OF ST MARY, MERTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ambrosden
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 60325 19428
Details
SP61NW AMBROSDEN MERTON ROAD (North side)
11/5 Gatepiers, gates and attached walled garden to E of Church of St. Mary
GV II
Gatepiers and walled garden. Piers c.1690; walls probably contemporary or early C18. Limestone ashlar; coursed squared rubble and brick. Ashlar piers have moulded bases and caps, hanging strips with scrolled tops, and vase finials carved with gadrooning and acanthus; C20 gates. Walled garden, roughly square in plan, has rubble walls 2-3 metres high with flat copings, except on the west, bordering the churchyard, where the coping is triangular with an apex roll; blocked doorways to south and east have brick segmental arches; the top half of the inner face is lined with brick. The walls form a complete circuit except for approximately 10 metres of the south wall adjoining the gates, which have been lowered. (V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol. V, p.28).
Listing NGR: SP6032519428
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 243390
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1957), 28
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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