Boundary Wall Extending West and South West From Church of St Laurence Belfry to Gateway
BOUNDARY WALL EXTENDING WEST AND SOUTH WEST FROM CHURCH OF ST LAURENCE BELFRY TO GATEWAY, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197162
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Boundary Wall Extending West and South West From Church of St Laurence Belfry to Gateway
- Statutory Address:
- BOUNDARY WALL EXTENDING WEST AND SOUTH WEST FROM CHURCH OF ST LAURENCE BELFRY TO GATEWAY, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197162
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Boundary Wall Extending West and South West From Church of St Laurence Belfry to Gateway
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOUNDARY WALL EXTENDING WEST AND SOUTH WEST FROM CHURCH OF ST LAURENCE BELFRY TO GATEWAY, CHURCH STREET
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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:
- BOUNDARY WALL EXTENDING WEST AND SOUTH WEST FROM CHURCH OF ST LAURENCE BELFRY TO GATEWAY, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Brentwood (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Blackmore, Hook End and Wyatts Green
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 60285 01557
Details
BLACKMORE
TL6001 CHURCH STREET 723-1/15/14 Boundary wall extending W & SW from Church of St Laurence belfry to gateway
GV II
Boundary wall. Early C18, altered in C19. Red and blue brick in Flemish bond. Abuts on SW corner of belfry of Church of St Laurence (qv) and extends westwards for approximately 10m to a blocked gap one metre wide, and there turns in a short radius curve to the SSW, as far as a gateway immediately N of the moat, a distance of approximately 115m. The C18 section is from, and including, this curve. Blue headers form a regular pattern on both sides. 65m SW of the belfry is a recess on the E side within a wider recess, the whole being 13m wide; the inner corners are square, the outer corners form short radius curves in header bond. At the S end the wall forms a reversed quadrant of approximately 1.50m radius to a square pier of the gateway (blocked with a wooden fence). The short section S of the gateway, abutting on a brick bridge over the moat, is not of architectural interest. No buttresses on either side. Has been raised twice with red brick. The lowest course of the first raise is of long bricks in stretcher bond on both sides, the bricks being up to 0.40m long. Plain copings of bricks on edge at each raise. The S part of the double recess has been damaged, probably by a falling tree, and repaired in plain red bricks, one of which is inscribed TMCL 1919 on the W side. The reversed quadrant at the S end has been repaired at both top corners with modern bricks and cement mortar. The section immediately W of the belfry is of a later build, similar in quality and style to the wall N of the E end of Blackmore Church with a blocked doorway with segmental arch 2m from the belfry and 5 buttresses on the N side, 4 of which have 2 roll mouldings and tumbled courses at the reductions. Similar coping. The main part of the wall is a rare survival in exceptionally good order.
Listing NGR: TL6028501557
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 373311
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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