Entrance Walls and Piers, Chippenham Cemetery
ENTRANCE WALLS AND PIERS, CHIPPENHAM CEMETERY, LONDON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268054
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Entrance Walls and Piers, Chippenham Cemetery
- Statutory Address:
- ENTRANCE WALLS AND PIERS, CHIPPENHAM CEMETERY, LONDON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268054
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1978
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 16-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Entrance Walls and Piers, Chippenham Cemetery
- Statutory Address 1:
- ENTRANCE WALLS AND PIERS, CHIPPENHAM CEMETERY, LONDON ROAD
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:
- ENTRANCE WALLS AND PIERS, CHIPPENHAM CEMETERY, LONDON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Chippenham
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 93343 72427
Details
CHIPPENHAM
ST9372 LONDON ROAD 930-1/13/82 (South side) 22/06/78 Entrance walls and piers, Chippenham Cemetery (Formerly Listed as: LONDON ROAD Forecourt walls of Chippenham Cemetery)
II
Walls and piers to cemetery. c1854. Limestone rubble with ashlar coping and piers. The walls, approx 2m high with chamfered coping and foliate stops to the outer edge, cant forward for approx 8m to meet tall gabled piers, they then extend approx 50m to the right with simpler chamfered capping, and 60m to the left where it steps back after approx 30m. The wall to the right extends back for approx 140m and turns to form the rear wall for approx 30m. It once enclosed the graveyard but part has been demolished to form a new rear entrance.
Listing NGR: ST9334372427
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 462280
- 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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