Churchyard Walls and Adjoining War Memorial
CHURCHYARD WALLS AND ADJOINING WAR MEMORIAL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1327529
- Date first listed:
- 15-Dec-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Churchyard Walls and Adjoining War Memorial
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCHYARD WALLS AND ADJOINING WAR MEMORIAL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1327529
- Date first listed:
- 15-Dec-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Churchyard Walls and Adjoining War Memorial
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCHYARD WALLS AND ADJOINING WAR MEMORIAL
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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 WALLS AND ADJOINING WAR MEMORIAL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Buryan, Lamorna and Paul
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 40929 25692
Details
ST BURYAN ST BURYAN
SW 42 NW
5/143
- Churchyard walls and adjoining war
memorial
GV
II
Churchyard walls and adjoining war memorial C18 walls (partly rebuilt in the C20
reusing original stones), early C20 war memorial to those who died in the 1914-18
World War. Walls are partly granite ashlar, partly granite rubble. Shaped dressed granite copings. The walls surround an irregularly shaped churchyard. There are 2 gateways: The south gateway qv. and an east gateway with steps up between returned churchyard walls. War memorial is built into the churchyard wall south of the church and faces the road. It is of granite ashlar and dressed granite. The memorial is a large ogee-headed arched niche containing a pierced wheel-headed cross with crucifixion over an inscribed plinth which stands on a tabernacle-like pedestal. Part excavated 1985. Found to overlie 3 other walls, the earliest of which is probably the enclosure wall of a late Iron Age enclosed settlement. ("Round").
Listing NGR: SW4092925692
This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 10 August 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 69697
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 13 December 2016 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/9278
War Memorials Online, accessed 10 August 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/251401
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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