The Churchyard Gates and Boundary Walls to North and West, Church of St Peter and St Paul
THE CHURCHYARD GATES AND BOUNDARY WALLS TO NORTH AND WEST, CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL , CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1238554
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1961
- List Entry Name:
- The Churchyard Gates and Boundary Walls to North and West, Church of St Peter and St Paul
- Statutory Address:
- THE CHURCHYARD GATES AND BOUNDARY WALLS TO NORTH AND WEST, CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL , CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1238554
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1961
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 25-Jan-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Churchyard Gates and Boundary Walls to North and West, Church of St Peter and St Paul
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE CHURCHYARD GATES AND BOUNDARY WALLS TO NORTH AND WEST, CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL , CHURCH STREET
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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:
- THE CHURCHYARD GATES AND BOUNDARY WALLS TO NORTH AND WEST, CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL , CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wincanton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST7109428513
Details
ST7128 WINCANTON CP CHURCH STREET (South side)
8/131 The Churchyard gates and boundary
walls to North and West, Church
of St Peter and St Paul
(formerly listed as Gate Piers
and Gates of Churchyard)
24.3.61
GV II
Boundary walls and gates. 1818. Local stone rubble, mostly cut and squared, with ashlar piers; wrought iron gates. North
East gateway nearest the town and grander than the others; gatepiers about 600mm square; plinths, rusticated ashlar,
moulded flat caps, and Adam style urns as finials, with sweeps of railings with barbed spear points to curved toprail
to matching side piers, the central piers being about 3 metres high and the outer 2.5 metres high; gates have barbed
spear finals to curved tops, and Greek key ornament to middle rails. The North West gate similar in detail but smaller
in scale. The South West gate has plain ashlar piers about 400 mm wide and 2 metres high, with moulded pyramidal caps;
the gates have plain points to rails, with quatrefoil in middle rails and applied curves to top rail. Linking walls
vary in height with slope of ground but average 1.5 metres; tops finished with cement flaunching. An essential part of
the street scene around the church, dating from the extension and enclosure of the churchyard in 1818. Only North East
gateway previously listed. (Sweetman G, History of Wincanton, c1904).
Listing NGR: ST7109428513
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 416094
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Sweetman, G, History of Wincanton, (1903)
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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