Boundary Walls, Piers, Gates and Railings to Church of St Thomas A Becket
BOUNDARY WALLS, PIERS, GATES AND RAILINGS TO CHURCH OF ST THOMAS A BECKET, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1394682
- Date first listed:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Boundary Walls, Piers, Gates and Railings to Church of St Thomas A Becket
- Statutory Address:
- BOUNDARY WALLS, PIERS, GATES AND RAILINGS TO CHURCH OF ST THOMAS A BECKET, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1394682
- Date first listed:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Boundary Walls, Piers, Gates and Railings to Church of St Thomas A Becket
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOUNDARY WALLS, PIERS, GATES AND RAILINGS TO CHURCH OF ST THOMAS A BECKET, CHURCH STREET
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:
- BOUNDARY WALLS, PIERS, GATES AND RAILINGS TO CHURCH OF ST THOMAS A BECKET, CHURCH STREET
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 75963 63896
Details
CHURCH STREET
Widcombe
(East side)
Boundary walls, piers,
gates and railings to
Church of St Thomas a Becket
GV II
Boundary walls with piers, gates and railings. C18. Ashlar, cast and wrought iron. To north of church, pair of plain square piers on moulded bases and to broad moulded cappings and ball finials with equatorial vermiculation, containing pair of iron gates with dogbars. To right high ashlar wall with weathered coping returns along Church Street as retaining wall to raised churchyard, to abut north-west corner of tower. Beyond tower, wall continues as retainer, with crowning railings, and stopped to return wall at south side of churchyard (qv Manor Cottage). To left of gate wall returns along Church Lane, with small gate at upper end, adjoining retaining wall at south side of churchyard. At gates, flight of stone steps down to Church Road, and approach path in stone flags and setts. An important element in setting of church.
WAR MEMORIAL: War Memorial. Roughly hammered grey granite. Celtic cross on square base, with inscriptions on three sides of base; names of dead of Second World War added below on front of base. Inscription opens 'Erected by the people of this parish in memory of brave men who died for Freedom, King and Country 1914-1918'. Group value with the adjacent church gate piers. The number of names listed is startling.
Listing NGR: ST7596363896
This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 15 December 2016.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 510085
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 15/12/2016 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/7263
War Memorials Online, accessed 15/12/2016 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/206097
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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