Churchyard Gates, Piers and Wing Walls
CHURCHYARD GATES, PIERS AND WING WALLS, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1330198
- Date first listed:
- 02-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Churchyard Gates, Piers and Wing Walls
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCHYARD GATES, PIERS AND WING WALLS, CHURCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1330198
- Date first listed:
- 02-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Churchyard Gates, Piers and Wing Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCHYARD GATES, PIERS AND WING WALLS, CHURCH ROAD
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:
- CHURCHYARD GATES, PIERS AND WING WALLS, CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Eaton and Eccleston
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 41300 62572
Details
SJ 4162 ECCLESTON C.P. CHURCH ROAD (North side)
7/104 Churchyard gates, piers and wing walls
GV II
Pair of gates, side screens, gate piers and wing walls. Gates, side screens and piers, c.1722, ascribed to Robert and John Davies of Croes Foel; wing walls probably 1957. Wrought iron, with stone piers and wing walls. Ornate dog-bars; scrolled lockrail; gilded wrought cartouche in central panel of each gate (above lockrail); decorative panels below and above lockrail in each side screen. Overthrow with repousse'floral and leaf patterns, carrying central shield (with Grosvenor Arms since 1957). Scrollwork terminates in repousse leaves. Square rusticated red sandstone piers with moulded plinths and urn caps. Quadrant rock-faced red sandstone wing walls with flush rounded copings. The Duke of Westminster bought, removed and re-erected the gates and piers on the demolition of Emral Hall in 1957. (The Davies Bros., Gatesmiths; Ifor Edwards; Welsh Arts Council 1977).
Listing NGR: SJ4130062573
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 55300
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Edwards, I, The Davies Brothers Gatesmiths, (1977)
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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