Wall, Railings and Gates to St Marys Churchyard and Rectory

WALL, RAILINGS AND GATES TO ST MARYS CHURCHYARD AND RECTORY, HANDBRIDGE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1375849
Date first listed:
10-Jan-1972
List Entry Name:
Wall, Railings and Gates to St Marys Churchyard and Rectory
Statutory Address:
WALL, RAILINGS AND GATES TO ST MARYS CHURCHYARD AND RECTORY, HANDBRIDGE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1375849
Date first listed:
10-Jan-1972
Date of most recent amendment:
23-Jul-1998
List Entry Name:
Wall, Railings and Gates to St Marys Churchyard and Rectory
Statutory Address 1:
WALL, RAILINGS AND GATES TO ST MARYS CHURCHYARD AND RECTORY, HANDBRIDGE

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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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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:
WALL, RAILINGS AND GATES TO ST MARYS CHURCHYARD AND RECTORY, HANDBRIDGE

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

District:
Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SJ 40691 65431

Details

CHESTER CITY (EM)

SJ4065 HANDBRIDGE 1932-1/8/169 (North West side) 10/01/72 Wall, railings and gates to St Mary's Churchyard and Rectory (Formerly Listed as: OVERLEIGH ROAD Churchyard Wall to Parish Church of St Mary Without-the-Walls)

GV II

Wall, railings and gates to St Mary's Handbridge (qv) churchyard and end of adjoining drive to Rectory, Overleigh Road (qv). 1887. By FB Wade at expense of the first Duke of Westminster. Rock-faced sandstone and wrought-iron. Battered wall approx 1m high with hollow-chamfered copings and gabled bay-piers with niches; cross-gabled gate piers to 3 gateways to church and one to Rectory. Wrought-iron railings on walls with "barleysugar" bars, ornamental quatrefoil panels with double ribs, those at top with foliar scrollwork. Ornate wrought-iron gates, 2 pedestrian and one for carriages to churchyard and one for carriages to Rectory drive.



Listing NGR: SJ4069165431

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Legacy System number:
469828
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.

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