GATES AND GATE PIERS AND CHURCHYARD WALL ENCLOSING CHURCH OF ST MARY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1382640
Date first listed:: 05-Apr-1967
List Entry Name:: GATES AND GATE PIERS AND CHURCHYARD WALL ENCLOSING CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address:: GATES AND GATE PIERS AND CHURCHYARD WALL ENCLOSING CHURCH OF ST MARY

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1382640
Date first listed:: 05-Apr-1967
Date of most recent amendment:: 27-Apr-2000
List Entry Name:: GATES AND GATE PIERS AND CHURCHYARD WALL ENCLOSING CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address 1:: GATES AND GATE PIERS AND CHURCHYARD WALL ENCLOSING CHURCH OF ST MARY

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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Location

Statutory Address:: GATES AND GATE PIERS AND CHURCHYARD WALL ENCLOSING CHURCH OF ST MARY

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County:: Warwickshire
District:: Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
Parish:: Preston on Stour
National Grid Reference:: SP 20336 49962

Details

PRESTON ON STOUR

SP2049 Gates, gate piers, and churchyard 1912-1/12/132 wall enclosing Church of St Mary 05/04/67 (Formerly Listed as: PRESTON ON STOUR Gateway to Churchyard of St Mary on North) (Formerly Listed as: PRESTON ON STOUR Gateway to Churchyard of St Mary on West)

GV II

Gates and gate piers to west and north-west of church, with attached wall enclosing the churchyard. c1750 with some early C19 rebuilding. Gates probably by Nicholas Parris. Ashlar and brick laid to Sussex bond, the C19 brick laid to Flemish bond; wrought-iron gates etc. Each gate has rusticated piers with moulded plinths, cornice and ball finials, gates of enriched wrought-iron with similar side panels and overthrow. Wall to north-east is C18 with roll moulding to chamfered ashlar coping, some C19 repair. Wall to south-east has extensive C19 repairs beneath original coping, and several small buttresses; C19 west end. Wall to west and north-west is completely C19, with plainer chamfered coping. (Bloom JH: A History of Preston-upon-Stour in the county of Gloucestershire: 1896-: 98; Victoria County Histories: Victoria History of the County of Gloucestershire: 1968-: 89).

Listing NGR: SP2033549961

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Legacy System number:: 483024
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Bloom, J H, A History of Preston-upon-Stour in the County of Gloucestershire, (1896), 98
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Gloucester, (1968), 89

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.