South Gateway and Stocks Immediately South East With Steps and Railings, Church of All Saints
SOUTH GATEWAY AND STOCKS IMMEDIATELY SOUTH EAST WITH STEPS AND RAILINGS, CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1225950
- Date first listed:
- 28-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- South Gateway and Stocks Immediately South East With Steps and Railings, Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address:
- SOUTH GATEWAY AND STOCKS IMMEDIATELY SOUTH EAST WITH STEPS AND RAILINGS, CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1225950
- Date first listed:
- 28-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- South Gateway and Stocks Immediately South East With Steps and Railings, Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address 1:
- SOUTH GATEWAY AND STOCKS IMMEDIATELY SOUTH EAST WITH STEPS AND RAILINGS, CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHURCH STREET
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:
- SOUTH GATEWAY AND STOCKS IMMEDIATELY SOUTH EAST WITH STEPS AND RAILINGS, CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Martock
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 46123 19123
Details
South Gateway & Stocks etc, Church Street 12/240 9/240
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South Gateway & Stocks etc, Church Street 12/240 9/240
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12/240 South gateway and stocks immediately south-east, with steps and railings, Church of All Saints 19.4.61
GV II
Gateway, steps and stocks. Gateway dated 1627. Ham stone, with wrot iron work. In form of short, tall ashlar wall with stepped angled coping, returned down the sides, with 3 pinnacles on top, framing a moulded semi-circular archway with false keystone and impost blocks; with an approach of 4 steps with matching baluster walls ending in square piers with bell-hip caps. The gates early C19, featuring Gothic arches, scrolls, barbed arrowpoints and other Regency style decoration; railings to corners formed by projecting stairs set on low stone base now almost sunken, having plain arrowhead tops; on south-west side railings enclose a notice board, and on south-east the stocks, 4 leg-holes with iron straps, under wrot iron and oak plank roof. An inscription over the archway reads: Robert Jeane and Thomas Row, Churchwardens, Ano Dni 1627".
Listing NGR: ST4612319122
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 422984
- 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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