GATE PIERS AND GATES TO CHURCHYARD OPPOSITE EAST END OF CHURCH OF ST JOHN

GATE PIERS AND GATES TO CHURCHYARD OPPOSITE EAST END OF CHURCH OF ST JOHN, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1207262
Date first listed:: 27-Sep-1979
List Entry Name:: GATE PIERS AND GATES TO CHURCHYARD OPPOSITE EAST END OF CHURCH OF ST JOHN
Statutory Address:: GATE PIERS AND GATES TO CHURCHYARD OPPOSITE EAST END OF CHURCH OF ST JOHN, CHURCH STREET

Pair of gate piers and gates to churchyard, circa 1855, opposite the east end of Church of St John in Preston. — Uploaded by Ashley Preston This photo may not represent the current condition of the site
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1207262
Date first listed:: 27-Sep-1979
List Entry Name:: GATE PIERS AND GATES TO CHURCHYARD OPPOSITE EAST END OF CHURCH OF ST JOHN
Statutory Address 1:: GATE PIERS AND GATES TO CHURCHYARD OPPOSITE EAST END OF CHURCH OF ST JOHN, CHURCH STREET

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:: GATE PIERS AND GATES TO CHURCHYARD OPPOSITE EAST END OF CHURCH OF ST JOHN, CHURCH STREET

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

County:: Lancashire
District:: Preston (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SD 54206 29383

Details

PRESTON

SD5429SW CHURCH STREET 941-1/12/82 (South side) 27/09/79 Gatepiers and gates to churchyard opposite east end of Church of St John

GV II

Pair of gate piers and gates to churchyard. c.1855, probably by E.H.Shellard. Sandstone ashlar and cast-iron. Gothic style. Octagonal piers, approx. half a metre wide and approx. 4 metres high; each has a plain base, a tall shaft in one piece with trefoil-headed panels in all sides, a cornice over this, a collar with quatrefoil panels, and a prominent moulded cornice and embattled cap. The gates (up 3 steps) have vertical bars forming 2 tiers of arcading, with bands of quatrefoils between them and near the foot, and trefoil cresting.

Listing NGR: SD5420629383

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Legacy System number:: 391961
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.