Description

TQ 48 NW ALDERSBROOK ROAD
2/5 MANOR PARK E12

Main Entrance Screen
and Lodges
- City of London Cemetery

GV II

Main entrance screen and two attached lodges. 1855: William Haywood. Rubblestone
with ashlar dressings. Tiled roofs with fishscale decoration to Lodges. Perpen-
dicular Gothic. Gabled entrance screen of three arches, with triple ogee-canopied
niches over, carrying City of London crest and two dragons. To either side piers
and iron railings forming semicircular forecourt. End piers to road circular with
conical tops. The north-western lodge is two storeyed, pitched roofed with gable
to the right, small, recessed, central tower with pyramidal spire and single storeyed
wing with oriel to the left. Perpendicular tracery to windows. (Later extension
to left of no interest). Tall stack with triple Tudor chimneys to right. This
lodge faces a second, to the south-east. Similar picturesque composition, with
gable, tower and oriel window (here two, instead of three sides). Single storeyed
block to right with wooden traceried windows. Stack to left of gable with two Tudor
chimney pots.

Listing NGR: TQ4180786343

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26356069

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets