SAFFRON HILL CEMETERY WEST LODGE AND ATTACHED WALLS, GATEPIERS AND GATES

SAFFRON HILL CEMETERY WEST LODGE AND ATTACHED WALLS, GATEPIERS AND GATES, STONESBY AVENUE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1088069
Date first listed:: 02-Aug-2002
List Entry Name:: SAFFRON HILL CEMETERY WEST LODGE AND ATTACHED WALLS, GATEPIERS AND GATES
Statutory Address:: SAFFRON HILL CEMETERY WEST LODGE AND ATTACHED WALLS, GATEPIERS AND GATES, STONESBY AVENUE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1088069
Date first listed:: 02-Aug-2002
List Entry Name:: SAFFRON HILL CEMETERY WEST LODGE AND ATTACHED WALLS, GATEPIERS AND GATES
Statutory Address 1:: SAFFRON HILL CEMETERY WEST LODGE AND ATTACHED WALLS, GATEPIERS AND GATES, STONESBY AVENUE

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.

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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:: SAFFRON HILL CEMETERY WEST LODGE AND ATTACHED WALLS, GATEPIERS AND GATES, STONESBY AVENUE

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

District:: City of Leicester (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SP 58915 99884

Details

718/0/10171 STONESBY AVENUE 02-AUG-02 SAFFRON HILL CEMETERY Saffron Hill Cemetery West Lodge and a ttached walls, gatepiers and gates

GV II

Cemetery lodge house with attached gate piers and gates and walls. 1928-9. By EP Mawson. Red brick with pyramidal plain tile roof and central brick stack. Neo-Georgian style with Crittall windows. Square plan. 2 storeys. A central round-headed window on the road facade set in full-height slightly projecting arch. A raised band becomes the cill band around the building. A 2-light window either side below. Further casements to sides and rear. Attached to right corner a short section of wall with coping and plinth. Attached to left a flat-roofed range formerly the registrar's office with door and single-light window. Further to left a round-arched gateway with wrought-iron pedestrian gate and further to left the gatepiers and gates. Tall brick piers are surmounted by stepped stone caps carved with cross motifs. Elaborate wrought-iron carriage gates. This well-designed cemetery lodge and gates forms a pair with the East Lodge and gate piers and gates (qv) and both form a group with the cemetery chapel (qv). Saffron Hill Cemetery is included in the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens at grade II.

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 489655
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.