Description

SD 52SW LEYLAND CHURCH ROAD

8/18 Gateway and boundary wall to
- St. Andrew's churchyard

GV II

Entrance gateway and retaining wall (which is dated 1827) with railings.
Stone gateway composed of wide Tudor arch with moulded and battlemented
coping carried between tall battlemented piers with trefoil panels. The
wall, which turns from the foot of the left pier, and runs c.100 metres
eastwards, forms a retaining boundary to the churchyard which is
elevated c. 3 metres above the road. Eight courses of stone blocks with
overhanging rounded coping, on which stand stick-baluster iron railings
with Gothic arches formed in the heads, divided into groups of 20 by
shaped posts with urn finials, carrying a spiked rail. Incorporated in
wall opposite the end of Sandy Lane is the lintel of a former doorway
incised "1827". At the west end the wall slopes downwards and has no
railings.

Listing NGR: SD5410121612

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26505538

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
• 
  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)