CHURCHYARD BOUNDARY WALL TO CHURCH OF ST THOMAS

CHURCHYARD BOUNDARY WALL TO CHURCH OF ST THOMAS, ST THOMAS STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1383154
Date first listed:: 31-Aug-1988
List Entry Name:: CHURCHYARD BOUNDARY WALL TO CHURCH OF ST THOMAS
Statutory Address:: CHURCHYARD BOUNDARY WALL TO CHURCH OF ST THOMAS, ST THOMAS STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1383154
Date first listed:: 31-Aug-1988
List Entry Name:: CHURCHYARD BOUNDARY WALL TO CHURCH OF ST THOMAS
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCHYARD BOUNDARY WALL TO CHURCH OF ST THOMAS, ST THOMAS STREET

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:: CHURCHYARD BOUNDARY WALL TO CHURCH OF ST THOMAS, ST THOMAS STREET

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Wells
National Grid Reference:: ST 55586 46186

Details

WELLS

ST5446 ST THOMAS STREET 662-1/6/294 (South side) 31/08/88 Churchyard boundary wall to Church of St Thomas

GV II

Boundary wall and gateway to church of St Thomas (qv). c1857 (date of church completion), by SS Teulon for the Revd George Blissett. Local stone rubble with ashlar dressings. Wall averages 1.5m high, with chamfered ashlar coping, stepping up hill eastwards on north side. Opposite the church porch a gabled gateway with ashlar quoins, offset sides, ashlar coping with roll- moulded apex, and pointed arched, quoined opening with pair timber gates having cusped-headed panels and long iron strap hinges. The wall adds to the setting of the church and to the streetscape generally.

Listing NGR: ST5558646186

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Legacy System number:: 483572
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.