GATES, GATEPIERS AND STEPS AT SOUTH WEST CORNER OF CHURCHYARD

GATES, GATEPIERS AND STEPS AT SOUTH WEST CORNER OF CHURCHYARD, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1330288
Date first listed:: 28-Aug-1985
List Entry Name:: GATES, GATEPIERS AND STEPS AT SOUTH WEST CORNER OF CHURCHYARD
Statutory Address:: GATES, GATEPIERS AND STEPS AT SOUTH WEST CORNER OF CHURCHYARD, CHURCH STREET

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Date:: 2000-10-20
Reference:: IOE01/00321/15
Rights:: © Mr Geraint Wyn Jones. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1330288
Date first listed:: 28-Aug-1985
List Entry Name:: GATES, GATEPIERS AND STEPS AT SOUTH WEST CORNER OF CHURCHYARD
Statutory Address 1:: GATES, GATEPIERS AND STEPS AT SOUTH WEST CORNER OF CHURCHYARD, CHURCH STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: GATES, GATEPIERS AND STEPS AT SOUTH WEST CORNER OF CHURCHYARD, CHURCH STREET

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District:: Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Malpas
National Grid Reference:: SJ 48627 47147

Details

MALPAS C.P. CHURCH STREET SJ 44 NE (North Side) 2/36 Gates, gatepiers and steps at south-west corner of churchyard. GV II* Pair of gates, gatepiers and steps, the gates made for Oulton Park, probably 1720's (at the time of Vanbrugh's work there), and moved to Malpas churchyard 1773; the piers and steps probably 1773. Gates and overthrow of wrought iron, piers and steps of red sandstone. Arrowhead dogbars; floral motif between each pair of vertical rails in lockrail; leafy scrollwork in central panels of gates and in overthrow, with Egerton crest. Pair of masonry gatepiers, with a tall recessed panel on each side, have projecting plinths, moulded cornices and ornate urn finials. One of 2 pairs of Oulton Park gates. See also item 34. In design and execution the gates and overthrow are excellent. (Revd.Canon T.M.Rylands, M.A., An Illustrated History of [St.Oswald's Malpas).

Listing NGR: SJ4862847147

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Legacy System number:: 55579
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Rylands, TM, An Illustrated History of St Oswalds Malpas

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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.