Gateway to Churchyard of St Mary

Church of St Mary, The Green

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1161875
Date first listed:
26-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:
Gateway to Churchyard of St Mary
Statutory Address:
Church of St Mary, The Green
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1161875
Date first listed:
26-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:
Gateway to Churchyard of St Mary
Statutory Address 1:
Church of St Mary, The Green

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
Church of St Mary, The Green

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

District:
Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Newbold Astbury
National Grid Reference:
SJ 84583 61555

Details

SJ 86 SW
4/53

NEWBOLD ASTBURY CP
THE GREEN
Gateway to Churchyard of St Mary

GV
II
Churchyard gateway. C17. Yellow sandstone ashlar. Central round archway with hood-mould and lateral walling which has offsets. Battlemented parapet above with crocketed pinnacles. A stone above the arch has an inscription in C18 script which reads: "Thomas Dodd DD/Rector of this parish" and a further line which is partially illegible but records the date 1542 although Dodd in fact died in the late C17.

Previously listed together with the Church of St Mary, the Green (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SJ8458461554

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Legacy System number:
56523
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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