Churchyard Wall With Gates, Piers and War Memorial
CHURCHYARD WALL WITH GATES, PIERS AND WAR MEMORIAL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1231956
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Churchyard Wall With Gates, Piers and War Memorial
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCHYARD WALL WITH GATES, PIERS AND WAR MEMORIAL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1231956
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Churchyard Wall With Gates, Piers and War Memorial
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCHYARD WALL WITH GATES, PIERS AND WAR MEMORIAL
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:
- CHURCHYARD WALL WITH GATES, PIERS AND WAR MEMORIAL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Stanhope
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 99678 39185
Details
STANHOPE MARKET PLACE
NY 9939 (North side)
Stanhope
34/232
Churchyard wall
with gates, piers
and War Memorial
GV II
Wall, gate piers, gates and War Memorial. Mid C19 and early C20. Rubble and
ashlar sandstone; wrought iron. Coursed rubble wall with tooled, chamfered
coping. On south side chamfered square gate piers of dressed stone with plinth,
broach stops, torus band and stepped pyramidal cap with ball finial. Gates
have pointed standards, dog bars and roundels in top rail. Iron alms box set
into wall to left of gates. Further left World War I memorial cross,of ashlar
on high plinth, and stepped base, inserted in stepped opening in the wall.
A similar opening, further left again, displays a fossil tree. Wall runs round
3 sides of churchyard.
Listing NGR: NY9967839185
This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 24 July 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 406910
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Online, accessed 7 February 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/150531
War Memorials Register, accessed 24 July 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/10414
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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