West Gates to St Boniface's Churchyard
WEST GATES TO ST BONIFACE'S CHURCHYARD, BOWE'S GATE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1138628
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1989
- List Entry Name:
- West Gates to St Boniface's Churchyard
- Statutory Address:
- WEST GATES TO ST BONIFACE'S CHURCHYARD, BOWE'S GATE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1138628
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1989
- List Entry Name:
- West Gates to St Boniface's Churchyard
- Statutory Address 1:
- WEST GATES TO ST BONIFACE'S CHURCHYARD, BOWE'S GATE ROAD
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:
- WEST GATES TO ST BONIFACE'S CHURCHYARD, BOWE'S GATE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bunbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ5687058095
Details
The following ammendment shall be made to the list description for Item 2/15:-
SJ 55 NE BUNBURY BOWE'S GATE ROAD
2/15 West gates to St Boniface's
Churchyard
GV II
Three pairs of gates and piers,erected 1920 as World War 1 memorial gate. A pair of
high standing sandstone ashlar piers, supporting the main timber gates, are flanked
by wicket gates and lower piers. The piers have ogee moulded plinths. The main gate
piers are recessed on their west faces for bronze war memorial name plates which carry
the inscriptions "LIVE THOU FOR ENGLAND" and "THESE FOR ENGLAND DIED" these are surmounted
by oak lead and acorn motifs and the dates 1914, 1939 and 1919, 1945 are above and below
the war dead. The pier caps have ogee cornices and ball finials and support an overthrow
of square rods which has a tapering hexagonal lamp at the centre. The lower piers have
scotia moulded caps with 4-way weathered tops. The oak gates are divided into square
panels by horizontal and vertical timbers and there is cross bracing to the upper panels
of the main gates.
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SJ 55 NE BUNBURY C.P. BOWE'S GATE ROAD
2/15 West gates to St
Boniface's Churchyard
GV
II
Three pairs of gates and piers, probably early C19 in origin but
reconstructed as memorial gates circa 1919. A pair of high standing
sandstone ashlar piers, supporting the main timber gates, are flanked
by wicket gates and lower piers. The piers have ogee moulded plinths.
The main gate piers are recessed on their west faces for bronze war
memorial name plates which carry the inscriptions "LIVE THOU FOR
ENGLAND" and "THESE FOR ENGLAND DIED" these are surmounted by oak lead
and acorn motifs and the dates 1914, 1939 and 1919, 1945 are above and
below the war dead. The pier caps have ogee cornices and ball finials
and support an overthrow of square rods which has a tapering hexagonal
lamp at the centre. The lower piers have scotia moulded caps with
4-way weathered tops. The oak gates are divided into square panels by
horizontal and vertical timbers and there is cross bracing to the
upper panels of the main gates.
Listing NGR: SJ5687058095
This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 26 January 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 56770
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 26 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/2056
War Memorials Online, accessed 26 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/120502
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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