WALL, GATEPIERS AND GATES BELONGING TO OLD CHURCH OF ST MARY

WALL, GATEPIERS AND GATES BELONGING TO OLD CHURCH OF ST MARY, BEDFORD STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1113989
Date first listed:: 16-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: WALL, GATEPIERS AND GATES BELONGING TO OLD CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address:: WALL, GATEPIERS AND GATES BELONGING TO OLD CHURCH OF ST MARY, BEDFORD STREET

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Date:: 2001-03-06
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1113989
Date first listed:: 16-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: WALL, GATEPIERS AND GATES BELONGING TO OLD CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address 1:: WALL, GATEPIERS AND GATES BELONGING TO OLD CHURCH OF ST MARY, BEDFORD STREET

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:: WALL, GATEPIERS AND GATES BELONGING TO OLD CHURCH OF ST MARY, BEDFORD STREET

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

District:: Central Bedfordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Woburn
National Grid Reference:: SP 94894 33258

Details

SP 9433-9533 WOBURN BEDFORD STREET (West Side) 8/101 - Wall, gatepiers and gates belonging to Old Church of St Mary GV II Wall, gatepiers and gates. Circa 1830 by Edward Blore. Ironstone with clunch dressings. Adjoins Lower School to N, runs southwards bordering the pavement and adjoins the Old Parsonage at S end. Approximately 45 metres long. Gateway to LH. 4 piers form a central carriage entrance flanked by 2 pedestrian gateways. Clunch piers are approximately 2 metres high and square in section. They have moulded bases, recessed panels with cusped heads, moulded embattled cornices and pyramidal caps. Cast iron gates have ornamental finials above toprails and to dograils of lower sections. Churchyard wall is of coursed ironstone with ashlar coping, and stands about half a metre high. Apparently originally supported piers and railings similar in style to gateway. (cf: illustration in J D Parry History and Description of Woburn and its Abbey, 1831).

Listing NGR: SP9489433258

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Legacy System number:: 38204
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Parry, J D , History and Description of Woburn and its Abbey, (1831)

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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.