Walls to Quaker Burial Ground With Remains of Building in South West Corner
WALLS TO QUAKER BURIAL GROUND WITH REMAINS OF BUILDING IN SOUTH WEST CORNER, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1315410
- Date first listed:
- 29-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Walls to Quaker Burial Ground With Remains of Building in South West Corner
- Statutory Address:
- WALLS TO QUAKER BURIAL GROUND WITH REMAINS OF BUILDING IN SOUTH WEST CORNER, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1315410
- Date first listed:
- 29-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Walls to Quaker Burial Ground With Remains of Building in South West Corner
- Statutory Address 1:
- WALLS TO QUAKER BURIAL GROUND WITH REMAINS OF BUILDING IN SOUTH WEST CORNER, MAIN STREET
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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:
- WALLS TO QUAKER BURIAL GROUND WITH REMAINS OF BUILDING IN SOUTH WEST CORNER, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Scotton
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 32646 59610
Details
SE 35 NW SCOTTON MAIN STREET (west side, off)
5/56 Walls to Quaker Burial Ground with remains of building in south-west corner.
GV II
Walls of burial ground and ruined building. C17 with later repair and restoration. Gritstone rubble. The wall approximately 1.5 metres high and enclosing an area approximately 35 metres square. The south wall is well coursed, with some rebuilding at the west end where a blocked entrance,into a building in the south-west corner, probably a stable, is marked by quoins. In 1670 William and Edward Watkinson conveyed land to the Friends' Trustees for a burial ground in Matthew Garth. Members of the Watkinson family are buried there (qv). Included for group value. A T Waterer, 'Records of the Parish of Farnham Etc', c1928, Typescript, Harrogate Public Library.
Listing NGR: SE3264559612
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 331813
- 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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