Entrance Gates, Shelters, Railings and Boundary Walls to Whitley Bay Cemetery
ENTRANCE GATES, SHELTERS, RAILINGS AND BOUNDARY WALLS TO WHITLEY BAY CEMETERY, THE LINKS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1096119
- Date first listed:
- 09-May-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Entrance Gates, Shelters, Railings and Boundary Walls to Whitley Bay Cemetery
- Statutory Address:
- ENTRANCE GATES, SHELTERS, RAILINGS AND BOUNDARY WALLS TO WHITLEY BAY CEMETERY, THE LINKS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1096119
- Date first listed:
- 09-May-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Entrance Gates, Shelters, Railings and Boundary Walls to Whitley Bay Cemetery
- Statutory Address 1:
- ENTRANCE GATES, SHELTERS, RAILINGS AND BOUNDARY WALLS TO WHITLEY BAY CEMETERY, THE LINKS
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:
- ENTRANCE GATES, SHELTERS, RAILINGS AND BOUNDARY WALLS TO WHITLEY BAY CEMETERY, THE LINKS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Tyneside (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ3465974492
Details
1022/0/10038 THE LINKS
09-MAY-03 Entrance Gates, Shelters, Railings and
Boundary Walls to Whitley Bay Cemetery
GV II
Gates, shelters, railings and walls. Designed by Edward Cratney of Newcastle. 1913. Coursed grey/blue granite with ashlar coping and wrought iron.
Tall square granite gatepiers are topped with moulded ashlar pyramidal caps. Large double inner wrought iron gates are supported by square inner wrought iron piers with the same square lattice construction as the gates themselves. The arched outer shelters or covered entrances at either side have plain walls with ashlar coping and flat roofs. Each shelter has a double-canted entrance arch to front and back with similar square pattern wrought iron gates to the outer arches.
Flanking low curved walls topped with iron railings form semi-circular quadrant in front of the entrance. Outer corners marked by square granite piers with moulded caps. To south a high granite wall with ashlar coping stretches along The Links, whilst to north a lower granite wall with railings above stretches along The Links and around the site of the cemetery.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 490085
- 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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