Walls, Gates and Railings Around St Mary's Churchyard
WALLS, GATES AND RAILINGS AROUND ST MARY'S CHURCHYARD, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1277794
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Walls, Gates and Railings Around St Mary's Churchyard
- Statutory Address:
- WALLS, GATES AND RAILINGS AROUND ST MARY'S CHURCHYARD, CHURCH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1277794
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Walls, Gates and Railings Around St Mary's Churchyard
- Statutory Address 1:
- WALLS, GATES AND RAILINGS AROUND ST MARY'S CHURCHYARD, CHURCH STREET
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:
- WALLS, GATES AND RAILINGS AROUND ST MARY'S CHURCHYARD, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Gateshead (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 25428 63651
Details
1. CHURCH STREET 5099 Walls, Gates and Railings NZ 2563 5/63 5.8.81 around St Mary's Churchyard
II
2. Late C18 and early C19 walls, part brick, part stone, with stone coping, support spearhead wrought iron railings with iron stays. Five pairs of stocky rusticated piers, with cornices and ball finials, hold wrought iron gates. Verniculate rusticated retaining walls to south-east.
Historical note: Church Street was made in 1790 to give a better gradient than Bottle Bank, but all the buildings in it, except the Church, were removed when the new Tyne Bridge was built in 1927-29.
Listing NGR: NZ2542863651
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 430194
- 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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