STEPS WALLS AND COFFIN REST AT THE WEST ENTRANCE TO THE CHURCHYARD OF CHURCH OF ST WENNA

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1144060
Date first listed:: 12-May-1988
List Entry Name:: STEPS WALLS AND COFFIN REST AT THE WEST ENTRANCE TO THE CHURCHYARD OF CHURCH OF ST WENNA
Statutory Address:: STEPS WALLS AND COFFIN REST AT THE WEST ENTRANCE TO THE CHURCHYARD OF CHURCH OF ST WENNA

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1144060
Date first listed:: 12-May-1988
List Entry Name:: STEPS WALLS AND COFFIN REST AT THE WEST ENTRANCE TO THE CHURCHYARD OF CHURCH OF ST WENNA
Statutory Address 1:: STEPS WALLS AND COFFIN REST AT THE WEST ENTRANCE TO THE CHURCHYARD OF CHURCH OF ST WENNA

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: STEPS WALLS AND COFFIN REST AT THE WEST ENTRANCE TO THE CHURCHYARD OF CHURCH OF ST WENNA

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

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: St. Wenn
National Grid Reference:: SW 96770 64829

Details

ST WENN SW 96 SE 8/324 Steps, walls and coffin rest at - the west entrance to the churchyard of Church of St Wenna GV II

Steps, walls and coffin rest. Circa mid - late C19. Granite. Flight of 8 granite steps. Low flanking walls in rubble, with chamfered granite coping; stepped up at the entrance to the churchyard, about 6 metres long. The entrance at the top has a central coffin rest with granite monolith top, and a grid of granite bars to each side to prevent animals entering the churchyard.

Listing NGR: SW9677064829

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Legacy System number:: 71326
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.