Gates and Gate Piers at West Entrance to Paternoster Row
GATES AND GATE PIERS AT WEST ENTRANCE TO PATERNOSTER ROW, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385187
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Gates and Gate Piers at West Entrance to Paternoster Row
- Statutory Address:
- GATES AND GATE PIERS AT WEST ENTRANCE TO PATERNOSTER ROW, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385187
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1988
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Sept-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Gates and Gate Piers at West Entrance to Paternoster Row
- Statutory Address 1:
- GATES AND GATE PIERS AT WEST ENTRANCE TO PATERNOSTER ROW, HIGH STREET
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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:
- GATES AND GATE PIERS AT WEST ENTRANCE TO PATERNOSTER ROW, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Barnstaple
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 55803 33208
Details
BARNSTAPLE
SS558332 HIGH STREET
684-1/8/172 (East side)
31/08/88 Gates and gate piers at west
entrance to Paternoster Row
(Formerly Listed as:
HIGH STREET
(East side)
Gates and Gate Piers at entrance to
Paternoster Row)
GV II
Gates and gate piers. Dated 1829. Made by Thomas L Willshire
to a plan by Mr Hooper. Lamps (now removed) were added in
1845. Openwork cast-iron, designed in Gothic style. Consists
of double gates in centre with single gate at either side,
these being flanked and separated by tall piers. Gates
decorated with quatrefoils, spearheads and trefoil-headed
panels. Gate piers square in section with similar detail. On
top of each are 4 crocketed pinnacles with a taller pinnacle
in the centre. The piers flanking the double gates carry small
brass plaques inscribed: NEW IRON GATE MADE AND THE CHURCH
YARD FLAT PAVED IN THE YEAR 1829. SAML. LINNINGTON, WILLM.
ARTER, WARDENS.
A simpler version of these gates, probably mid C19, stands
further down Paternoster Row (qv), at the E entrance to the
churchyard.
(Harper's Albums, notes of Vestry Minutes: 37).
Listing NGR: SS5580333208
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485649
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Harper's Albums in Harper's Albums, ()
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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