NORTH BOUNDARY WALL TO CHURCHYARD, WITH GATES TO NORTH AND NORTH EAST OF CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, AND THE WAR MEMORIAL

NORTH BOUNDARY WALL TO CHURCHYARD, WITH GATES TO NORTH AND NORTH EAST OF CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, AND THE WAR MEMORIAL, WEST STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1056924
Date first listed:: 18-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:: NORTH BOUNDARY WALL TO CHURCHYARD, WITH GATES TO NORTH AND NORTH EAST OF CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, AND THE WAR MEMORIAL
Statutory Address:: NORTH BOUNDARY WALL TO CHURCHYARD, WITH GATES TO NORTH AND NORTH EAST OF CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, AND THE WAR MEMORIAL, WEST STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1056924
Date first listed:: 18-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:: NORTH BOUNDARY WALL TO CHURCHYARD, WITH GATES TO NORTH AND NORTH EAST OF CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, AND THE WAR MEMORIAL
Statutory Address 1:: NORTH BOUNDARY WALL TO CHURCHYARD, WITH GATES TO NORTH AND NORTH EAST OF CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, AND THE WAR MEMORIAL, WEST STREET

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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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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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Location

Statutory Address:: NORTH BOUNDARY WALL TO CHURCHYARD, WITH GATES TO NORTH AND NORTH EAST OF CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, AND THE WAR MEMORIAL, WEST STREET

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: South Petherton
National Grid Reference:: ST4321716883

Details

SOUTH PETHERTON CP WEST STREET (East side) ST4316 7/183 North boundary wall to churchyard, with gates to north and north-east of Church of St Peter and St Paul, and the War memorial

GV II

Boundary walling with two gateways. Probably C18 and early C19. Ham stone, partly ashlar, partly coursed rubble. Wall varies in height between 1.5 and 2 metres, with flattish thin copings. North gateway, opposite the north porch of C18, with square ashlar piers about 3 metres high, having plinths, cornice caps, steps and necks with ball finials: wrought-iron gates of C20. North-east gateway plainer, probably C19, with square ashlar piers having bell-hip caps; gates C20 to match north gateway. Towards the north-west end the wall punctuated by the first World War Memorial, up 8 steps, in the form of a churchyard cross on an octagonal base of 3 steps.

Listing NGR: ST4321716883

This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 14 December 2016.

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Legacy System number:: 264268
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Websites
War Memorials Online, accessed 14/12/2016 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/99077
War Memorials Register, accessed 14/12/2016 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/25064

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