GATE PIERS TO EPSOM CEMETERY

GATE PIERS TO EPSOM CEMETERY, ASHLEY ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1232277
Date first listed:: 24-Sep-1986
List Entry Name:: GATE PIERS TO EPSOM CEMETERY
Statutory Address:: GATE PIERS TO EPSOM CEMETERY, ASHLEY ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1232277
Date first listed:: 24-Sep-1986
List Entry Name:: GATE PIERS TO EPSOM CEMETERY
Statutory Address 1:: GATE PIERS TO EPSOM CEMETERY, ASHLEY ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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 TO EPSOM CEMETERY, ASHLEY ROAD

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County:: Surrey
District:: Epsom and Ewell (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 21384 59311

Details

EPSOM ASHLEY ROAD 1. 5385 TQ 2159 (north side) 35/166 Gate piers to Epsom Cemetery II GV CV 2. Gate piers. 1870. Designed by William Young. Kentish Ragstone and Bath stone. Three square-section piers flanking carriage and pedestrian gates. Each has rock-faced base, offset below rock-faced shaft with moulded angle shafts, and moulding below pyramidal leaf-finialled cap (different to each pier) which has a trefoil panel to each face carved with foliage, birds etc (each panel different). The original gates have been replaced. The Cemetery was purchased in 1870 by the Local Burial Board who commissioned R N Shaw and W Young to undertake the work. The designs are by Young and appear in his book, Picturesque Architectural Studies (1872).

Listing NGR: TQ2138459311

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Young, W, Picturesque Architectural Studies, (1872)

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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.