Old Deanery Boundary Wall on South Side at Return to New Street
OLD DEANERY BOUNDARY WALL ON SOUTH SIDE AT RETURN TO NEW STREET, THE LIBERTY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383180
- Date first listed:
- 13-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Old Deanery Boundary Wall on South Side at Return to New Street
- Statutory Address:
- OLD DEANERY BOUNDARY WALL ON SOUTH SIDE AT RETURN TO NEW STREET, THE LIBERTY
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- Date:
- 2007-08-04
- Reference:
- IOE01/16715/12
- Rights:
- © Mr John H. Sparkes. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383180
- Date first listed:
- 13-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Old Deanery Boundary Wall on South Side at Return to New Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD DEANERY BOUNDARY WALL ON SOUTH SIDE AT RETURN TO NEW STREET, THE LIBERTY
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- OLD DEANERY BOUNDARY WALL ON SOUTH SIDE AT RETURN TO NEW STREET, THE LIBERTY
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 54942 45958
Details
WELLS
ST5445 THE LIBERTY
662-1/7/316 (South side)
13/09/72 Old Deanery boundary wall on S side
at return to New Street
GV II
Part of boundary wall to the Old Deanery, Cathedral Green(qv).
C15, with additions and restorations. Rubble, some copings.
The wall, which also returns to the S, behind the garage
facing New Street, varies from approx 3.25 to 4m in height,
and extends approx 60m in length from its junction with the
return at New Street to a return to the C20 canons' houses
(not included) in The Liberty. There is a slight change in
direction towards the W end, but the wall is otherwise
continuous.
It is a very important townscape element at the junction of
New Street with The Liberty, and part of what was formerly a
complete enclosure to the large site between The Liberty and
Cathedral Green occupied by the Old Deanery.
Listing NGR: ST5494245958
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 483598
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
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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