RETAINING WALL, STEPS AND SUNDIAL AT THE WEST END OF THE CHURCHYARD OF CHURCH OF ST GORAN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1144753
Date first listed:: 15-Nov-1988
List Entry Name:: RETAINING WALL, STEPS AND SUNDIAL AT THE WEST END OF THE CHURCHYARD OF CHURCH OF ST GORAN
Statutory Address:: RETAINING WALL, STEPS AND SUNDIAL AT THE WEST END OF THE CHURCHYARD OF CHURCH OF ST GORAN

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1144753
Date first listed:: 15-Nov-1988
List Entry Name:: RETAINING WALL, STEPS AND SUNDIAL AT THE WEST END OF THE CHURCHYARD OF CHURCH OF ST GORAN
Statutory Address 1:: RETAINING WALL, STEPS AND SUNDIAL AT THE WEST END OF THE CHURCHYARD OF CHURCH OF ST GORAN

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:: RETAINING WALL, STEPS AND SUNDIAL AT THE WEST END OF THE CHURCHYARD OF CHURCH OF ST GORAN

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

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: St. Goran
National Grid Reference:: SW9991742276

Details

ST GORAN GORRAN CHURCHTOWN SW 94 SE 3/114 Retaining wall, steps and sundial - at the west end of the churchyard of Church of St Goran

GV II

Retaining wall, steps and sundial. C19. Slatestone rubble and granite. The retaining wall is about 10 metres long, about one metre high on the inner side, with chamfered granite coping. The wall turns a right angle to the steps; a flight of ten wide granite steps with a similar wall along the outer side. The wall at the inner side is swept round about 12 metres to north, diminishing in height with the slope of the ground. There is a chamfered granite pier about 1½ metres high, set into the wall, with a copper sundial with gnomon set on top, dated 1708.

Listing NGR: SW9991742276

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Legacy System number:: 71612
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.