North Entrance Including Gates, Piers and Railings to Bishopwearmouth Cemetery
NORTH ENTRANCE INCLUDING GATES, PIERS AND RAILINGS TO BISHOPWEARMOUTH CEMETERY, HYLTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207098
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- North Entrance Including Gates, Piers and Railings to Bishopwearmouth Cemetery
- Statutory Address:
- NORTH ENTRANCE INCLUDING GATES, PIERS AND RAILINGS TO BISHOPWEARMOUTH CEMETERY, HYLTON ROAD
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/01201/24
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207098
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- North Entrance Including Gates, Piers and Railings to Bishopwearmouth Cemetery
- Statutory Address 1:
- NORTH ENTRANCE INCLUDING GATES, PIERS AND RAILINGS TO BISHOPWEARMOUTH CEMETERY, HYLTON ROAD
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.
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:
- NORTH ENTRANCE INCLUDING GATES, PIERS AND RAILINGS TO BISHOPWEARMOUTH CEMETERY, HYLTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Sunderland (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 37371 56603
Details
SUNDERLAND
NZ35NE HYLTON ROAD 920-1/4/125 (South side) North entrance incl. gates, piers & railings to Bishopwearmouth Cemetery
GV II
Bishopwearmouth Cemetery entrance gates, piers and railings. 1856. By Thomas Moore. Ashlar piers and dwarf walls, cast-iron piers, cast and wrought-iron gates and railings. Serpentine painted ashlar dwarf walls with chamfered coping flank tall octagonal gate piers formed from open panels with decorative central and top bands with high swept octagonal coping, brattished decoration on coping which has high bud finials. Lozenge shaped bud finials on railings with quatrefoil-pierced dog bar band; gates have similar finials and central band. Entrance railings terminate in painted ashlar octagonal piers with brattished ornament on high ogee-moulded coping.
Listing NGR: NZ3737156603
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391501
- 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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