CEMETERY WALL, RAILINGS AND GATES

CEMETERY WALL, RAILINGS AND GATES, CHESTERTON LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1205364
Date first listed:: 30-Jan-1992
List Entry Name:: CEMETERY WALL, RAILINGS AND GATES
Statutory Address:: CEMETERY WALL, RAILINGS AND GATES, CHESTERTON LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1205364
Date first listed:: 30-Jan-1992
List Entry Name:: CEMETERY WALL, RAILINGS AND GATES
Statutory Address 1:: CEMETERY WALL, RAILINGS AND GATES, CHESTERTON LANE

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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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:: CEMETERY WALL, RAILINGS AND GATES, CHESTERTON LANE

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

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Cotswold (District Authority)
Parish:: Cirencester
National Grid Reference:: SP0147201246

Details

CIRENCESTER

SP0101 CHESTERTON LANE 578-1/5/69 (South West side) 30/01/92 Cemetery wall, railings and gates

GV II

Cemetery wall, railings and gates. 1871. By Medland of Gloucester, built by W Hinton of Cirencester. Limestone ashlar with cast- and wrought-iron railings and gates. Wall approximately 0.5m high with weathered coping topped by railings with spear tops approximately 0.5m high, each section of railings with 2 uprights with foliated tops, divided into sections approximately 4m long by 33 stone piers approximately 1.5m high of square section with beaded corners and weathered caps. Five similar larger piers with recessed quatrefoil panels and crocketed caps. Main gates set back to centre with linking quadrants of wall are elaborately decorated with cast and wrought-iron panels, flanked by two gate piers similar to larger piers with crocketed finial tops; further pair of gates of similar design to railings to left end. (Beecham KJ: History of Cirencester and the Roman City Corinium: 1887-).

Listing NGR: SP0147201246

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Legacy System number:: 365209
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Beecham, K J , History of Cirencester and the Roman City of Corinium, (1887)

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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.