Boundary Walls to Friends Burial Ground Walls Bounding the Friends Burial Ground
BOUNDARY WALLS TO FRIENDS BURIAL GROUND, CROMWELL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1257905
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Boundary Walls to Friends Burial Ground Walls Bounding the Friends Burial Ground
- Statutory Address:
- BOUNDARY WALLS TO FRIENDS BURIAL GROUND, CROMWELL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1257905
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Boundary Walls to Friends Burial Ground Walls Bounding the Friends Burial Ground
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOUNDARY WALLS TO FRIENDS BURIAL GROUND, CROMWELL ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- WALLS BOUNDING THE FRIENDS BURIAL GROUND, CARR LANE
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:
- BOUNDARY WALLS TO FRIENDS BURIAL GROUND, CROMWELL ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- WALLS BOUNDING THE FRIENDS BURIAL GROUND, CARR LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- York (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 60174 51351
Details
YORK
SE6051SW CROMWELL ROAD
1112-1/21/277 (North East side)
Boundary walls to Friends' Burial
Ground
GV II
Includes: Walls bounding the Friends' Burial Ground CARR LANE
Walls bounding the Friends' Burial Ground to north-west,
north-east, south-east and south-west, interrupted to
south-west by Tuke House. Wall to north west forms southern
side of Carr Lane. C18 and C19, probably incorporating
sections of C17 wall; part on Carr Lane side medieval or
earlier. Early parts of rubble stone; later parts of
orange-red and variegated red brick, some in English
garden-wall bond, some random bond; brick and stone copings.
Access from Cromwell Road through board double doors in
segment-arched gateway. Walls vary in height, from 1.75 metres
approximately to 2.75 and 3.0 metres approximately, ramped-up
in places and raked along Carr Lane. Earlier walls have dwarf
pilaster buttresses on inner side and flat or sloped copings
of brick; C19 wall has chamfered stone coping.
(Pace GG: Bishophill: York: York: 1974-: 7).
Listing NGR: SE6017451351
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 463300
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pace, G G, York, (1974), 7
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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