Churchyard Boundary Wall and Gate at Christchurch

CHURCHYARD BOUNDARY WALL AND GATE AT CHRISTCHURCH, NEWCHURCH

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1356870
Date first listed:
08-Mar-1999
List Entry Name:
Churchyard Boundary Wall and Gate at Christchurch
Statutory Address:
CHURCHYARD BOUNDARY WALL AND GATE AT CHRISTCHURCH, NEWCHURCH

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1356870
Date first listed:
08-Mar-1999
List Entry Name:
Churchyard Boundary Wall and Gate at Christchurch
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCHYARD BOUNDARY WALL AND GATE AT CHRISTCHURCH, NEWCHURCH

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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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCHYARD BOUNDARY WALL AND GATE AT CHRISTCHURCH, NEWCHURCH

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

County:
Staffordshire
District:
East Staffordshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Yoxall
National Grid Reference:
SK 14844 23411

Details

SK12SW YOXALL NEWCHURCH

171/9/10019 Churchyard boundary wall
and gate at Christchurch
GV
II

Churchyard boundary wall and gateways. 1806-08, altered cl921 and adapted as a war memorial. Red brick, with crenellated rockfaced stone coping to northern and western lengths, and moulded brick coping to the remainder. The wall encloses the churchyard on west and north sides, and divides the churchyard from the vicarage on the east side.
Western length, approx. 65m, has double gateway opposite west door. Square brick piers with crenellated rockfaced stone caps, wrought iron crests, double gates and overthrow with cross and pendant tamp, c1921. On the south pier, an inscribed cast iron plague commemorating the dead of World War 1. Northern length, approx. 60m, has similar single wrought iron gate. Eastern length has wooden gateway between church and vicarage.
(included for group value with 10018)



Listing NGR: SK1484423411

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, 16 June 2017.

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Legacy System number:
473107
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 16 June 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/72716
War Memorials Online, accessed 16 June 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/197977

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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.

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