Borough Cemetery Gate House and Attached Railings
BOROUGH CEMETERY GATE HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, DEVONSHIRE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209811
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Borough Cemetery Gate House and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- BOROUGH CEMETERY GATE HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, DEVONSHIRE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209811
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Borough Cemetery Gate House and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOROUGH CEMETERY GATE HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, DEVONSHIRE 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:
- BOROUGH CEMETERY GATE HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, DEVONSHIRE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 19990 70734
Details
BARROW IN FURNESS
SD17SE DEVONSHIRE ROAD 708-1/3/41 (North side) Borough Cemetery gatehouse and attached railings
II
Cemetery gatehouse with attached railings. Dated 1874. By Paley and Austin (plan), altered. Coursed limestone with red sandstone dressings, graduated slate roof. 2-storey, 3-bay centre with 1-storey, 2-window office in side wing on left and 2-storey lodge on right of same width but with wing to rear; attached railings are set in quadrants to each side and return to line pavement. Romanesque. Chamfered plinth, quoins. Tall central carriage arch recessed between pedestrian side gates: each opening has keeled arches of 2 orders linked by impost string course; original iron gates. 2 bands and 1st floor sill band beneath blind arcading with taller central window; outer bays have larger windows in 2-order arches. Band beneath parapet with triangular copings built up in 2 courses. Hipped roof with a multiple-flue ashlar stack to each end; terracotta ridge cresting. Office wing on left: buttress against left return; paired windows with colonnettes and impost string course; coped end gable. Lodge on right: similar but taller, no 1st floor windows to front. Rear: 2 dated rain-water heads; office has shallow, canted bay-window. Ribbed vaulting within the archway, 2-bay arcades and barrel vaults to each side. Railings: panels are fixed between sandstone piers rising from dwarf walls; the railings have square bars, twin top rails and finials of 2 heights. Surviving drawings dated November 1873 show a central bell tower with spire; this and some other architectural details (shafts, mouldings) have since been removed. (Building Plans Register: 1873-: NO.520).
Listing NGR: SD1999070734
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388437
- 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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