GATES AND PIERS WITH RAILINGS AT WEST END OF THE CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE

GATES AND PIERS WITH RAILINGS AT WEST END OF THE CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE, CHURCH SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1344715
Date first listed:: 04-Jul-1975
List Entry Name:: GATES AND PIERS WITH RAILINGS AT WEST END OF THE CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE
Statutory Address:: GATES AND PIERS WITH RAILINGS AT WEST END OF THE CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE, CHURCH SQUARE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1344715
Date first listed:: 04-Jul-1975
List Entry Name:: GATES AND PIERS WITH RAILINGS AT WEST END OF THE CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE
Statutory Address 1:: GATES AND PIERS WITH RAILINGS AT WEST END OF THE CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE, CHURCH SQUARE

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.

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: GATES AND PIERS WITH RAILINGS AT WEST END OF THE CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE, CHURCH SQUARE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Taunton
National Grid Reference:: ST 22855 24593

Details

1. CHURCH SQUARE 5365 (East Side) Gates and piers with railings at west end of the Church of St Mary Magdalene St T 2224 NE 9/1A

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2. Second half of C19. Gatepiers with gates come forward in centre. Piers of ashlar with a pinnacle and band of crenellation to each. Double wrought-iron gates with scrollwork above and multi-foiled motifs below crossbar. Running back to left and right are low stone walls surmounted by wrought-iron scrolled railings divided at regular intervals by square ashlar piers with crenellated tops. A 2nd set of wrought-iron gates with similar detail to the left. A further gateway without gates opposite south porch.

All the listed buildings in Church Square together with the Church of St Mary Magdalene and the listed buildings in Hammet Street form an extremely important group.

Listing NGR: ST2288224580

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Legacy System number:: 269664
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.