GATE PIERS AND GATES APROXIMATELY 30 METRES NORTH EAST OF CHURCH OF ST OSWALD AND ATTACHED CHURCHYARD WALL TO SOUTH GATE PIERS AND GATES APPROXIMATELY 30 METRES NORTH EAST OF CHURCH OF ST OSWALD AND ATTACHED CHURCHYARD WALL TO SOUTH

GATE PIERS AND GATES AP[ROXIMATELY 30 METRES NORTH EAST OF CHURCH OF ST OSWALD AND ATTACHED CHURCHYARD WALL TO SOUTH, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1176247
Date first listed:: 10-Sep-1951
List Entry Name:: GATE PIERS AND GATES APROXIMATELY 30 METRES NORTH EAST OF CHURCH OF ST OSWALD AND ATTACHED CHURCHYARD WALL TO SOUTH GATE PIERS AND GATES APPROXIMATELY 30 METRES NORTH EAST OF CHURCH OF ST OSWALD AND ATTACHED CHURCHYARD WALL TO SOUTH
Statutory Address:: GATE PIERS AND GATES AP[ROXIMATELY 30 METRES NORTH EAST OF CHURCH OF ST OSWALD AND ATTACHED CHURCHYARD WALL TO SOUTH, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1176247
Date first listed:: 10-Sep-1951
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-May-1986
List Entry Name:: GATE PIERS AND GATES APROXIMATELY 30 METRES NORTH EAST OF CHURCH OF ST OSWALD AND ATTACHED CHURCHYARD WALL TO SOUTH GATE PIERS AND GATES APPROXIMATELY 30 METRES NORTH EAST OF CHURCH OF ST OSWALD AND ATTACHED CHURCHYARD WALL TO SOUTH
Statutory Address 1:: GATE PIERS AND GATES AP[ROXIMATELY 30 METRES NORTH EAST OF CHURCH OF ST OSWALD AND ATTACHED CHURCHYARD WALL TO SOUTH, CHURCH STREET
Statutory Address 2:: GATE PIERS AND GATES APPROXIMATELY 30 METRES NORTH EAST OF CHURCH OF ST OSWALD AND ATTACHED CHURCHYARD WALL TO SOUTH, BROAD WALK

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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:: GATE PIERS AND GATES AP[ROXIMATELY 30 METRES NORTH EAST OF CHURCH OF ST OSWALD AND ATTACHED CHURCHYARD WALL TO SOUTH, CHURCH STREET
Statutory Address:: GATE PIERS AND GATES APPROXIMATELY 30 METRES NORTH EAST OF CHURCH OF ST OSWALD AND ATTACHED CHURCHYARD WALL TO SOUTH, BROAD WALK

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

District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Oswestry
National Grid Reference:: SJ 28905 29385

Details

SJ 2829 SE; 15/49

OSWESTRY C.P., CHURCH STREET (west side), Gate piers and gates approx. 30m north-east of Church of St. Oswald and attached churchyard wall to south

(part formerly listed as Churchyard gates)

10.9.51

GV

II

Gate piers, gates and churchyard wall. Circa 1738, and C19. Gate piers and gates: c1738, probably by the Davies Brothers of Bersham near Wrexham; 2 piers flanking entrance to Broad Walk with another pier at right-angles forming separate gateway; square section with three moulded rectangular bands to each pier, moulded plinths and capping surmounted by ornamental urns; delicate wrought-iron gates have scrollwork and floral enrichment to main pair and urn-capped standards and scrollwork to subsidiary set. Low regularly coursed wall with stone coping, interrupted by pair of C19 piers with blind Gothic tracery, links gate piers with gate piers to south of Church of St. Oswald (q.v.). B.O.E, p. 223.

Listing NGR: SJ2890729401

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Legacy System number:: 255519
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Shropshire, (1958), 223

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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.