Gate Piers and Gates to Amesbury Abbey, With Flanking Walls

GATE PIERS AND GATES TO AMESBURY ABBEY, WITH FLANKING WALLS, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1131088
Date first listed:
10-Oct-1988
List Entry Name:
Gate Piers and Gates to Amesbury Abbey, With Flanking Walls
Statutory Address:
GATE PIERS AND GATES TO AMESBURY ABBEY, WITH FLANKING WALLS, CHURCH STREET
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1131088
Date first listed:
10-Oct-1988
List Entry Name:
Gate Piers and Gates to Amesbury Abbey, With Flanking Walls
Statutory Address 1:
GATE PIERS AND GATES TO AMESBURY ABBEY, WITH FLANKING WALLS, CHURCH STREET

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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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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
GATE PIERS AND GATES TO AMESBURY ABBEY, WITH FLANKING WALLS, CHURCH STREET

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

District:
Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Amesbury
National Grid Reference:
SU 15177 41374

Details

AMESBURY CHURCH STREET SU 1541 (north side) 11/11 Gate piers and gates to Amesbury Abbey, with flanking wall

II* Gate piers and gates. Piers mid-later C18. Chilmark ashlar and wrought iron gates. Each pier consists of two Tuscan half columns to front flanking a round headed niche. Blank raised panel over. Entablature and triangular pediment. Rear similar but Tuscan pilasters flanking arched recess. Gates, probably C20, with ornamented lock band and dog rails. To right of right pier, a flint and stone chequer wall with tiled coping, approximately 2m high and 8m long, returning as lower boundary wall to graveyard by some 50m to meet nave of church. Lean-to store with fragments of medieval carving, and a pedestrian opening at the church end.

Listing NGR: SU1517741374

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Legacy System number:
321322
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.

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