Gate Piers to Epsom Cemetery
GATE PIERS TO EPSOM CEMETERY, ASHLEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1232277
- Date first listed:
- 24-Sept-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Gate Piers to Epsom Cemetery
- Statutory Address:
- 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-Sept-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Gate Piers to Epsom Cemetery
- Statutory Address 1:
- GATE PIERS TO EPSOM CEMETERY, ASHLEY 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:
- GATE PIERS TO EPSOM CEMETERY, ASHLEY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 407603
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Young, W, Picturesque Architectural Studies, (1872)
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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