WALCOT CEMETERY GATE AND WALL

WALCOT CEMETERY GATE AND WALL, PARAGON

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1394247
Date first listed:: 11-Jun-1950
List Entry Name:: WALCOT CEMETERY GATE AND WALL
Statutory Address:: WALCOT CEMETERY GATE AND WALL, PARAGON

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1394247
Date first listed:: 11-Jun-1950
Date of most recent amendment:: 14-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: WALCOT CEMETERY GATE AND WALL
Statutory Address 1:: WALCOT CEMETERY GATE AND WALL, PARAGON

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: WALCOT CEMETERY GATE AND WALL, PARAGON

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

District:: Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: ST 75067 65537

Details

PARAGON 656-1/31/1177 (East side) Walcot Cemetery gate and wall (Formerly Listed as: PARAGON Walcot Cemetery Gates) 12/06/50

GV II

Cemetery gate and wall. 1840. By James Wilson. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, wrought iron gate. Wall, approx 25m long and 3m high, spans space between church house (qv) and house to right, behind and below catacomb. Wall has moulded coping, cornice, triglyph frieze, banded rustication, moulded dado and plinth. Moulded architrave to central fixed gate with arrow headed vertical rails flanked by wide stepped forward piers with block caps and recessed panels between frieze and dado containing inverted flambeau torches (symbol of death), flanking walls each have two similar panels. Top originally had ornaments in form of niches with segmental pediment heads rising above central piers. These have been removed since 1945. This is an unusually elaborate wall to a town burial ground, employing a dramatic form of Neoclassical symbolism more usually found on contemporary private cemeteries (ie Nunhead Cemetery, South London). Town burial grounds such as this were to close down in the 1850s, and is thus a late example of this unusual genre. Listing NGR: ST7506765537

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Legacy System number:: 509651
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.