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Latitude: 52.2792 / 52°16'45"N
Longitude: -2.7786 / 2°46'43"W
OS Eastings: 346974
OS Northings: 264844
OS Grid: SO469648
Mapcode National: GBR BH.YGMH
Mapcode Global: VH770.SZD5
Plus Code: 9C4V76HC+MG
Entry Name: Tower About 15 Metres South of Church of St Leonard
Listing Date: 11 December 1987
Grade: I
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1081790
English Heritage Legacy ID: 150166
ID on this website: 101081790
Location: St Leonard's Church, Yarpole, County of Herefordshire, HR6
County: County of Herefordshire
Civil Parish: Croft and Yarpole
Built-Up Area: Yarpole
Traditional County: Herefordshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Herefordshire
Church of England Parish: Croft with Yarpole and Lucton
Church of England Diocese: Hereford
Tagged with: Tower
YARPOLE CP GREEN LANE (north side)
SO 46 SE
6/143 Tower about 15 metres
south of Church of
St Leonard
GV I
Detached tower. Probably C13, restored 1910. Random rubble with some
ashlar dressings and stone tile and shingle roof. Square plan walls on
ground floor enclosing frame of tower, lean-to roofs on stone walls, upper
part of tower weatherboarded with range of seven pierced quatrefoils just
below the pyramidal roof. The entrance in north wall has a chamfered
segmental pointed arch. The boarded door has plain strap hinges. Simple
slit windows in the other walls. Interior: whole tower supported on four
massive corner posts which are inclined inwards and taper towards the top.
The sides between posts are scissor-braced. Empty mortices in the main
posts suggest that the outer wall may have been timber-framed. The early
C20 restorers bolted new braces onto the inside of the frame. (RCHM, 3,
p 215; BoE, p 327).
Listing NGR: SO4697464844
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