Description

LANCHESTER DURHAM ROAD
NZ 1647 (East side)
Lanchester

13/81 Walls, steps, piers,
railings and gates
to south and east
of Church of All
Saints

GV II

Walls, steps, piers, railings, gates and overthrow to Church of All Saints.
C18 with C19 gates, overthrow and railings. Coursed sandstone rubble walls
with roughly-dressed coping; ashlar piers and steps; wrought and cast iron
gates, overthrow and railings. Low wall with gabled coping encloses churchyard
on south and east sides, interrupted by wide entrances at south-west and south
east, narrow entrance immediately to east of the former, and narrow entrance
at north-east.

Steps up to wide entrance flanked by tall, square, panelled piers with moulded
plinths, cornices and tall pyramid finials on moulded feet. Scroll-topped
pilaster jambs.

Gates in Gothic style have fleur-de-lys heads on principals and dog-bars, and
lattice top band. Serpentine overthrow has twisted leaf decoration and raised
centre with cross finial.

2 short flights of side steps at right, with plain iron railings and handrail,
to narrow entrance.

South-west entrance has tooled square piers with pyramidal coping; fleur-de-lys
headed gates.

Listing NGR: NZ1679647378

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26606383

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Recommended Books

• 
  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  For the Record
• 
  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
• 
  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
• 
  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)