Two Lodges and gateway linking wall and railings to Barnsley Cemetery

Two Lodges and gateway linking wall and railings to Barnsley Cemetery, Cemetery Road

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1293376
Date first listed:
20-Feb-1980
List Entry Name:
Two Lodges and gateway linking wall and railings to Barnsley Cemetery
Statutory Address:
Two Lodges and gateway linking wall and railings to Barnsley Cemetery, Cemetery Road

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1293376
Date first listed:
20-Feb-1980
Date of most recent amendment:
13-Jan-1986
List Entry Name:
Two Lodges and gateway linking wall and railings to Barnsley Cemetery
Statutory Address 1:
Two Lodges and gateway linking wall and railings to Barnsley Cemetery, Cemetery Road

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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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The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

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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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Location

Statutory Address:
Two Lodges and gateway linking wall and railings to Barnsley Cemetery, Cemetery Road

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

District:
Barnsley (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SE 35331 05708

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 4 October 2021 to reformat text to current standards

SE30NE
4/7

BARNSLEY
Barnsley
CEMETERY ROAD (south side)
Two Lodges and gateway, linking wall and railings to Barnsley Cemetery

(Formerly listed as Two Barnsley Cemetery Lodges, gateway, and the dwarf wall linking them all.)

20.2.80

GV
II

Two cemetery chapels, linking wall and gateway. 1860-1 by Perkins and Backhouse of Leeds. Rock-faced stone, with ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roofs. Lodge to left single-storey. Lodge to right two-storey. Gothic style. The lodge to left is octagonal in plan, with plinth. Its entrance, within the cemetery, has arched head and hoodmould with foliage stops. The other main sides have cusped, spherical triangle windows with alternately coloured voussoirs. Small buttresses to the remaining sides. Pyramidal roof with bands of fishscale slating. The lodge to the right is of four bays, marked by low buttresses, and the left part is octagonal in plan. Paired and single lancet windows, the pair to the left with square hoodmould with foliage stops. The first floor of the second bay has taller, narrower paired lancets which rise above the eaves in a gabled dormer with finial and circle in apex. Moulded gutter brackets. Bands of fishscale slating to roof which is pyramidal over the left part. The cemetery front has a central pent porch with pointed-arched doorway. Flat-roofed addition to left of this in keeping. The left return of the octagonal part is gabled and has paired lancet windows.

The lodges are linked by a low wall plinth, ashlar coping and simple iron railings with round bars which have decorative finials. Tall central, buttresses, arched gateway with coping, kneelers, footstones and iron finials. In apex is a cinquefoil and a ribbon with date AD 1861. Wrought-iron gates of simple, elegant design (the right gate is incomplete).

Listing NGR: SE3533105708

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
333692
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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