York Cemetery Railings, Gates, Gate Piers and Terminal Piers on West Boundary
YORK CEMETERY RAILINGS, GATES, GATE PIERS AND TERMINAL PIERS ON WEST BOUNDARY, CEMETERY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1259306
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1983
- List Entry Name:
- York Cemetery Railings, Gates, Gate Piers and Terminal Piers on West Boundary
- Statutory Address:
- YORK CEMETERY RAILINGS, GATES, GATE PIERS AND TERMINAL PIERS ON WEST BOUNDARY, CEMETERY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1259306
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1983
- List Entry Name:
- York Cemetery Railings, Gates, Gate Piers and Terminal Piers on West Boundary
- Statutory Address 1:
- YORK CEMETERY RAILINGS, GATES, GATE PIERS AND TERMINAL PIERS ON WEST BOUNDARY, CEMETERY ROAD
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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:
- YORK CEMETERY RAILINGS, GATES, GATE PIERS AND TERMINAL PIERS ON WEST BOUNDARY, CEMETERY ROAD
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 60949 50811
Details
YORK
SE6050NE CEMETERY ROAD 1112-1/25/148 (East side) 24/06/83 York Cemetery railings, gates, gate piers and terminal piers on west boundary
GV II
Carriage and pedestrian gates and gate piers; railings and terminal piers. 1837, designed by J P Pritchett, manufactured by John Walker of Walmgate; carriage gates replaced 1880, manufactured by William Walker. Gates and railings of cast-iron; piers of ashlar. Gates are of turned bars and dogbars with ornate spearhead finials and bulbous mouldings at mid height. These are supported on 3 square gate piers with domed caps, the outer faces of which are incised with attenuated Greek fret motifs, the caps with anthemion. Railings are square section and set diagonally in dwarf stone wall with cambered coping. Intermediate piers approximately 5.0 metres high are square on plan and chamfered and tapered to domed caps. Terminal piers to north and south are approximately 5.5 metres high with moulded cornices, that to north carrying a sarcophagus, to the south a sphynx. (An Inventory of the Historical Monuments of the City of York: RCHME: Outside the City Walls East of the Ouse: HMSO: 1975-: 29; York Historian: Malden J: The Walker Ironfoundry, York, c.1825-1923: York: 1976-: 48).
Listing NGR: SE6094950811
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 463024
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of the City of York IV East, (1975), 29
Malden, J, York Historian in The Walker Iron Foundry York Circa 1825-1923, (1976), 48
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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