Retaining Walls and Stairs in Church Cemetery
RETAINING WALLS AND STAIRS IN CHURCH CEMETERY, MANSFIELD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1058986
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Retaining Walls and Stairs in Church Cemetery
- Statutory Address:
- RETAINING WALLS AND STAIRS IN CHURCH CEMETERY, MANSFIELD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1058986
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Retaining Walls and Stairs in Church Cemetery
- Statutory Address 1:
- RETAINING WALLS AND STAIRS IN CHURCH CEMETERY, MANSFIELD 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:
- RETAINING WALLS AND STAIRS IN CHURCH CEMETERY, MANSFIELD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Nottingham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 56787 41198
Details
NOTTINGHAM
SK54SE MANSFIELD ROAD 646-1/4/395 (West side (off)) Retaining walls and stairs in Church Cemetery
GV II
Retaining walls and stairway to sunken cemetery plot. 1851-56. Rockfaced Bulwell stone and ashlar. The burial plot is in a semicircular amphitheatre, formerly a sand quarry, approx 10m deep and 60m across. The plot is ringed by retaining walls with continuous pointed arches divided by buttresses, with a coped parapet wall. On the north-east side, a tunnel entrance from Mansfield Road. On the north-west side, an ashlar stairway carried on segmental pointed arches and flanked by a balustrade wall with stepped coping. The plot contains many multiple burials c1900-1914, as well as conventional internments. Church Cemetery was landscaped by Edwin Patchitt of Nottingham, 1856. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London: 1979-: 238; Reprint from The Mercian Geologist, Vol. 13, Sept. 1992: Waltham AC: The sandstone caves of Nottingham: Nottingham: 1992-: 19; Nottingham Evening Post : 02/08/88).
Listing NGR: SK5678741198
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 457906
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire, (1979), 238
The Mercian Geologist in The Mercian Geologist, (1992), 19
Nottingham Evening Post in 2 August, (1988)
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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