Gates, Piers and Railings to Camberwell Old Cemetery
GATES, PIERS AND RAILINGS TO CAMBERWELL OLD CEMETERY, FOREST HILL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385528
- Date first listed:
- 31-May-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Gates, Piers and Railings to Camberwell Old Cemetery
- Statutory Address:
- GATES, PIERS AND RAILINGS TO CAMBERWELL OLD CEMETERY, FOREST HILL ROAD
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- Date:
- 2004-05-28
- Reference:
- IOE01/12189/29
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385528
- Date first listed:
- 31-May-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Gates, Piers and Railings to Camberwell Old Cemetery
- Statutory Address 1:
- GATES, PIERS AND RAILINGS TO CAMBERWELL OLD CEMETERY, FOREST HILL ROAD
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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:
- GATES, PIERS AND RAILINGS TO CAMBERWELL OLD CEMETERY, FOREST HILL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Southwark (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 34996 74215
Details
SOUTHWARK
TQ3475SE FOREST HILL ROAD 636-1/61/343 (South West side) 31/05/96 Gates, piers and railings to Camberwell Old Cemetery
II
Gates, piers and railings to Camberwell Old Cemetery. 1856. Ragstone with smooth stone dressings; cast and wrought-iron. Gothic Revival style to match the Gate Lodge (qv). Main entrance of 4 piers defining a single carriageway with walkways to either side. The piers are square in section, with set back buttresses to front and rear of each; the corners of each pier chamfered with run out stops. Pier finishes in facing gable; to return of gable blind, diminutive dormers terminating in fleur-de-lis; at each corner of gable a carved head. Railings and gates have lower rails forming a frieze filled with trefoiled tracery and quatrefoils; between uprights are trefoiled tracery. Railings debouch to main road, forming a shallow east-facing forecourt with outer piers, which are simpler in design than those framing the gates, lacking buttresses and heads. Railings to north step down in section to terminate in a pier of simple piers. Railings step up to south, terminating in piers and railings which turn the corner to Wood Vale. All railings braced by elegant curved rails to cemetery and set in low stone plinth with simply chamfered coping. Railings have been replaced in sections to match the original design.
Listing NGR: TQ3499674215
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 470927
- 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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