Screen Wall and Garden Walls to South and East of Auckland Castle
SCREEN WALL AND GARDEN WALLS TO SOUTH AND EAST OF AUCKLAND CASTLE, AUCKLAND CASTLE PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1196448
- Date first listed:
- 21-Apr-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Screen Wall and Garden Walls to South and East of Auckland Castle
- Statutory Address:
- SCREEN WALL AND GARDEN WALLS TO SOUTH AND EAST OF AUCKLAND CASTLE, AUCKLAND CASTLE PARK
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1196448
- Date first listed:
- 21-Apr-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 23-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Screen Wall and Garden Walls to South and East of Auckland Castle
- Statutory Address 1:
- SCREEN WALL AND GARDEN WALLS TO SOUTH AND EAST OF AUCKLAND CASTLE, AUCKLAND CASTLE PARK
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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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- SCREEN WALL AND GARDEN WALLS TO SOUTH AND EAST OF AUCKLAND CASTLE, AUCKLAND CASTLE PARK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bishop Auckland
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 21406 30168
Details
BISHOP AUCKLAND
NZ2130 AUCKLAND CASTLE PARK 634-1/8/82 (East side (off)) 21/04/52 Screen wall and garden walls to south and east of Auckland Castle (Formerly Listed as: Screen wall to S of Auckland Castle)
GV I
Screen wall, railings and gates to garden of Auckland Castle (qv), with wall around east and north sides of garden. c1795. By James Wyatt for Bishop Shute Barrington. Ashlar screen, rubble garden wall with ashlar coping, wrought-iron gates and railings. Gothick style. Main screen wall along south side of castle garden is ashlar, and battlemented throughout. Tall octagonal turrets with arrow slits and corbelled battlements define end bays and central gateway. Gateway has canted walls with wide pointed arches flanking high pointed entrance arch, with painted panels with arms of Diocese at left and of Bishop Barrington at right above. Long walls either side have 8 wide pointed arches to left and 7 to right, filled with plain wrought-iron railings with pointed heads, as are side arches of entrance. Gates in same style have quadrant bracing to upper panels. Garden wall to left of screen is coursed squared stone with battlemented ashlar coping, and near left end has service entrance with rectangular gate piers; gates in same style as those at centre of screen. To right of screen, coursed squared stone wall continues around west and north of garden and has battlemented ashlar parapets. At east and west ends of north wall pointed arches contain 6-panel doors with shaped top panels, the west door returning to join wall below Church of St Peter (qv). (Colvin H: A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840: London: 1978-: 750).
Listing NGR: NZ2140630168
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 385605
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, (1978), 750
Legal
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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