RAILINGS AND GATES FORMING SOUTH WEST BOUNDARY OF MUSEUM GARDENS

RAILINGS AND GATES FORMING SOUTH WEST BOUNDARY OF MUSEUM GARDENS, MUSEUM GARDENS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1257125
Date first listed:: 31-Jan-1973
List Entry Name:: RAILINGS AND GATES FORMING SOUTH WEST BOUNDARY OF MUSEUM GARDENS
Statutory Address:: RAILINGS AND GATES FORMING SOUTH WEST BOUNDARY OF MUSEUM GARDENS, MUSEUM GARDENS

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Date:: 2001-06-12
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1257125
Date first listed:: 31-Jan-1973
Date of most recent amendment:: 14-Mar-1997
List Entry Name:: RAILINGS AND GATES FORMING SOUTH WEST BOUNDARY OF MUSEUM GARDENS
Statutory Address 1:: RAILINGS AND GATES FORMING SOUTH WEST BOUNDARY OF MUSEUM GARDENS, MUSEUM GARDENS

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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:: RAILINGS AND GATES FORMING SOUTH WEST BOUNDARY OF MUSEUM GARDENS, MUSEUM GARDENS

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District:: York (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SE 59769 52051

Details

YORK

SE5952SE MUSEUM GARDENS 1112-1/12/777 Railings and gates forming 31/01/73 south-west boundary of Museum Gardens (Formerly Listed as: THE ESPLANADE Boundary fence and gates on south side of Museum Gardens)

GV II

Railings with carriage and foot gates forming south-west boundary of Museum Gardens. 1844. By the John Walker foundry. Cast-iron gates and railings; stone piers and wall. Piers approximately 1.25 metres high with tapering chamfered sides and domed caps. Railings raised on low wall with flat coping, approximately 0.33 metre high. Square section railings are set diagonally: carriage gates towards left end and foot gate at right end of similar railings, carriage gates strengthened by single curving braces. Iron plaques cast with the City of York arms attached to 6 piers. (Murray H: Heraldry and the Buildings of York: York: 1985-: 5, 59).

Listing NGR: SE5977252050

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Legacy System number:: 464208
Legacy System:: LBS

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Murray, H , Heraldry and the Buildings of York, (1985), 5, 59

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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.