THE GATE PIERS AND GATES, ABOUT 22 METRES NORTH NORTH WEST OF THE CHURCH, AND ALL OF THE BOUNDARY WALLS AND OTHER GATEWAYS, CHURCH OF SAINT MARY

THE GATE PIERS AND GATES, ABOUT 22 METRES NORTH NORTH WEST OF THE CHURCH, AND ALL OF THE BOUNDARY WALLS AND OTHER GATEWAYS, CHURCH OF SAINT MARY, STATION ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1366338
Date first listed:: 29-Aug-1984
List Entry Name:: THE GATE PIERS AND GATES, ABOUT 22 METRES NORTH NORTH WEST OF THE CHURCH, AND ALL OF THE BOUNDARY WALLS AND OTHER GATEWAYS, CHURCH OF SAINT MARY
Statutory Address:: THE GATE PIERS AND GATES, ABOUT 22 METRES NORTH NORTH WEST OF THE CHURCH, AND ALL OF THE BOUNDARY WALLS AND OTHER GATEWAYS, CHURCH OF SAINT MARY, STATION ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1366338
Date first listed:: 29-Aug-1984
List Entry Name:: THE GATE PIERS AND GATES, ABOUT 22 METRES NORTH NORTH WEST OF THE CHURCH, AND ALL OF THE BOUNDARY WALLS AND OTHER GATEWAYS, CHURCH OF SAINT MARY
Statutory Address 1:: THE GATE PIERS AND GATES, ABOUT 22 METRES NORTH NORTH WEST OF THE CHURCH, AND ALL OF THE BOUNDARY WALLS AND OTHER GATEWAYS, CHURCH OF SAINT MARY, STATION ROAD

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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:: THE GATE PIERS AND GATES, ABOUT 22 METRES NORTH NORTH WEST OF THE CHURCH, AND ALL OF THE BOUNDARY WALLS AND OTHER GATEWAYS, CHURCH OF SAINT MARY, STATION ROAD

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Bruton
National Grid Reference:: ST6842234816

Details

ST6834NW 8/188

BRUTON CP STATION ROAD (West side)

The gate piers and gates, about 22 metres North North West of the Church, and all of the boundary walls and other gateways, Church of Saint Mary

GV II

Boundary walls with gate piers and gates. Mostly C18 and C19. Local and Doulting stone, with cast iron gates. North boundary wall averages 2.5 metres high, with coursed rubble capped with pitched coping stones; near gates a plaque recording flood levels; central gate piers of square ashlar with pyramidal caps on which are set C20 wrought iron lights; fine pair cast iron gates in Gothic style; similar gate piers in North West corner, with ashlar sweep wall to Vicarage (qv), C20 wooden gates. West wall averages 2 metres high, with stepped pitched coping; rubble, with some old tombstones set in. South wall has vertical stone copings to rubble, again with tombstones set in; opposite East wall of chancel is a 4-centred arched gateway, possibly the private gateway for the Berkeley family, owners of the former Abbey; to left of gateway is fragment of chest tomb of Thomas Hill, died 1637. East wall also rubble, rather lower in average height. The North and East walls are important elements in the street scene; the South and West walls define the limits between churchyard and Bruton Abbey, finally demolished in 1786. (Couzens P, Bruton in Selwood, Abbey Press, Sherborne 1972).

Listing NGR: ST6842234816

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Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Couzens, P, Bruton in Selwood, (1972)

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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.