Boundary Wall to Tower Hamlets Cemetery
BOUNDARY WALL TO TOWER HAMLETS CEMETERY, WELLINGTON WAY E3
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1065816
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Boundary Wall to Tower Hamlets Cemetery
- Statutory Address:
- BOUNDARY WALL TO TOWER HAMLETS CEMETERY, WELLINGTON WAY E3
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1065816
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Boundary Wall to Tower Hamlets Cemetery
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOUNDARY WALL TO TOWER HAMLETS CEMETERY, WELLINGTON WAY E3
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:
- BOUNDARY WALL TO TOWER HAMLETS CEMETERY, WELLINGTON WAY E3
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Tower Hamlets (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 37134 82431
Details
In the entry for:
WELLINGTON WAY, E3 TQ 3782 (west side)
12/326 Boundary walls to Tower II Hamlets Cemetery
The description shall be amended to read:
Boundary wall to Tower Hamlets Cemetery, consecrated 1841 and designed by Wyatt and Brandon; restored 1980s. Stock brick wall, about 8 ft high, with rendered plinth and piers (some rendered) at regular intervals with gabled stone caps; dog-tooth cornices beneath brick-on-edge parapets to recessed bays between piers.
------------------------------------ 1. WELLINGTON WAY E3 4431 Boundary Wall to Tower Hamlets Cemetery TQ 3782 12/326 II 2. Early C19. Stock brick wall about 8 ft high capped and with interval piers which have 4 sided gabled caps (see also Southern Grove).
Listing NGR: TQ3486980043
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 206342
- 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.
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