Wall With Stone Pier Supporting Lamp Bracket

WALL WITH STONE PIER SUPPORTING LAMP BRACKET, WATER BAG BANK

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1149861
Date first listed:
12-Dec-1985
List Entry Name:
Wall With Stone Pier Supporting Lamp Bracket
Statutory Address:
WALL WITH STONE PIER SUPPORTING LAMP BRACKET, WATER BAG BANK
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1149861
Date first listed:
12-Dec-1985
List Entry Name:
Wall With Stone Pier Supporting Lamp Bracket
Statutory Address 1:
WALL WITH STONE PIER SUPPORTING LAMP BRACKET, WATER BAG BANK

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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Corrections and minor amendments

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
WALL WITH STONE PIER SUPPORTING LAMP BRACKET, WATER BAG BANK

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

District:
North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Knaresborough
National Grid Reference:
SE 34760 57120

Details

SE 3457 KNARESBOROUGH WATER BAG BANK (north side)

6/197 Wall with stone pier supporting lamp bracket

GV II

Wall, pier and lamp bracket. Late C18. Gritstone and wrought iron. Wall: approximately 9 metres long, 2 metres high at west end, tapering to 80 centimetres at east end. Rounded coping and terminal at east end. Pier: attached to west end of walling. Square section, approximately 2.5 metres high on north side. Projecting band and shallow pyramidal capstone. Lamp bracket: 4 S-scroll feet attached to pier top, with 4 curved arms to hold lamp. Projecting bar with knob finial may be ladder support. The wall forms a revetment between the steep slope of Water Bag Bank to south and level path to the church on the north side. A photograph c1890 in the Court House museum, Knaresborough, shows this pier supporting a fine wrought-iron gate and with the lantern intact.

Listing NGR: SE3476157123

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Legacy System number:
330867
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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