NORTH AND EAST BOUNDARY WALLS TO LYNCOMBE HILL BURIAL GROUND

NORTH AND EAST BOUNDARY WALLS TO LYNCOMBE HILL BURIAL GROUND, LYNCOMBE HILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1395267
Date first listed:: 15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: NORTH AND EAST BOUNDARY WALLS TO LYNCOMBE HILL BURIAL GROUND
Statutory Address:: NORTH AND EAST BOUNDARY WALLS TO LYNCOMBE HILL BURIAL GROUND, LYNCOMBE HILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1395267
Date first listed:: 15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: NORTH AND EAST BOUNDARY WALLS TO LYNCOMBE HILL BURIAL GROUND
Statutory Address 1:: NORTH AND EAST BOUNDARY WALLS TO LYNCOMBE HILL BURIAL GROUND, LYNCOMBE HILL

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:: NORTH AND EAST BOUNDARY WALLS TO LYNCOMBE HILL BURIAL GROUND, LYNCOMBE HILL

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 75358 64219

Details

LYNCOMBE HILL (East side) North and East boundary walls to Lyncombe Hill Burial Ground

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Walls. Late C18. MATERIALS: Coursed squared limestone. EXTERIOR: High retaining walls up to 3.5m. in height, triangular copings. Striking landscape feature on Claverton Street. HISTORY: These walls formerly secured the Unitarian Burial Ground. According to Peach, `this exquisitely beautiful spot, in the lovely glen of Lyncombe, was presented to his brethren by the late Mr Howse, as a burial ground, in the year 1819. Here is a convenient chapel, around which many interments have taken place'. The ground has been built over since. SOURCES: [REM Peach, `Bath Old and New' (1891), 186].

Listing NGR: ST7535864219

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 510676
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.