Parish Boundary Stone, Wall and Pier

PARISH BOUNDARY STONE, WALL AND PIER, ST GEORGE'S WHARF

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1262106
Date first listed:
27-Jun-1979
List Entry Name:
Parish Boundary Stone, Wall and Pier
Statutory Address:
PARISH BOUNDARY STONE, WALL AND PIER, ST GEORGE'S WHARF
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1262106
Date first listed:
27-Jun-1979
Date of most recent amendment:
09-Sept-1988
List Entry Name:
Parish Boundary Stone, Wall and Pier
Statutory Address 1:
PARISH BOUNDARY STONE, WALL AND PIER, ST GEORGE'S WHARF

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
PARISH BOUNDARY STONE, WALL AND PIER, ST GEORGE'S WHARF

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Greater London Authority
District:
Southwark (London Borough)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
TQ3668478999

Details

In the entry for:
2/125

PLOUGH WAY SE16
(North End, West Side)
Parish boundary stone, wall and pier, in perimeter wall of South Cut Yard

The address and description shall be amended to read:

ST GEORGE'S WHARF
(west side, north end)
Parish boundary stone, wall and pier.

Boundary stone. Dated 1819. Portland stone pier, with moulded plinth and cornice.
Inscription panels divided by central dividing groove: St/MR/1819/1877/1886 and
a bench mark below are inscribed in panel to right; panel to left inscribed
St/PD/1819. This marks the boundary between the parishes of St. Mary Rotherhithe
and St Paul Deptford, as set out in 1819 and ratified in 1877 and 1886. Subsidiary
features: early C19 wall of Flemish bond brick with moulded Portland stone coping
slightly ramped up to boundary stone; this wall, approx 5.9m long, links boundary
stone with similar plain stone, having worn bench mark, at other end.

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1.
4424
TQ 3678
2/125

PLOUGH WAY SE16
(North end, West Side) Parish boundary stone, wall and pier, in perimeter wall of South Cut Yard

II

2.
1819. Portland stone pier about 3'6" tall and 2' wide with moulded cornice. Central
dividing groove. Inscriptions: in north half: SMR 1819 1877 1886 and a bench mark
below. In south half: SPD 1819. This marks the boundary between the parishes of
St Mary Rotherhithe and St Paul Deptford, as set out in 1819 and ratified in 1877 and 1886.

Adjoning to south a nine-yard length of low stock brick wall with moulded Portland stone
coping slightly ramped up to the stone. At South end of wall a pier similar to the
boundary stone but bearing only a blurred bench mark.

Listing NGR: TQ3668478999

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
203438
Legacy System:
LBS

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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