Churchyard Wall With 3 Pairs of Gate Piers, 2 With Gates, to Church of St Peter
CHURCHYARD WALL WITH 3 PAIRS OF GATE PIERS, 2 WITH GATES, TO CHURCH OF ST PETER, TOWN GATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1313738
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Churchyard Wall With 3 Pairs of Gate Piers, 2 With Gates, to Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCHYARD WALL WITH 3 PAIRS OF GATE PIERS, 2 WITH GATES, TO CHURCH OF ST PETER, TOWN GATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1313738
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Churchyard Wall With 3 Pairs of Gate Piers, 2 With Gates, to Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCHYARD WALL WITH 3 PAIRS OF GATE PIERS, 2 WITH GATES, TO CHURCH OF ST PETER, TOWN GATE
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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:
- CHURCHYARD WALL WITH 3 PAIRS OF GATE PIERS, 2 WITH GATES, TO CHURCH OF ST PETER, TOWN GATE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Calderdale (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 04244 23211
Details
SOWERBY BRIDGE TOWN GATE SE 0423 & SE 0523 (east end), Sowerby 12/275 churchyard wall with 3 pairs of gate piers, 2 with gates, to Church of St Peter GV II Churchyard wall with gate piers and gates. Probably c.1766 as church (q.v.) wall partly rebuilt C20. Millstone grit, coursed and squared to wall; cast-iron gates. Wall: low with chamfered coping. A short section of railing survives to east of gateway opposite church main door, and has plain bars and one urn-finialed standard with scrolled bracket. Other sections of railing removed though coping on inner side of wall rises at intervals to support former brackets to standards. On inside of wall are projecting chamfered blocks, incised, on north, south and west walls, with letters of the alphabet, and on east wall with numbers running from 20-54. These blocks formed the basis of a system for identifying grave plots. The wall is broken through to east of the church chancel, the coping is removed from the north end of the eastern wall, and the eastern end of the north wall has been replaced in the C20. The wall is interrupted by 3 gateways. That to west of church tower has 2-stage monolithic piers, square in section, the upper stage narrower, with shallow corniced, pyramidal caps and gates removed. The gateway to south of church south door has gate piers as west gateway, but with necking, and retains 2-leaf gate with spiked bars, dog-bars with arrowhead finials and urn-finialed hinge bars. The gateway to south of church priest's door is similar, but the right-hand gate has been removed and at time of resurvey lay on ground inside churchyard.
Listing NGR: SE0424423211
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 339407
- 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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