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Latitude: 51.7722 / 51°46'19"N
Longitude: -3.2068 / 3°12'24"W
OS Eastings: 316824
OS Northings: 208856
OS Grid: SO168088
Mapcode National: GBR YX.ZK6D
Mapcode Global: VH6CV.CQJ9
Plus Code: 9C3RQQCV+V7
Entry Name: Entrance Gates and Railings at Christ Church
Listing Date: 29 October 1999
Last Amended: 29 October 1999
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 22525
Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary
ID on this website: 300022525
Location: Church is prominently sited on E side of Church Street, the spire dominating the town. Gates and railings in front of church, along Church Street.
County: Blaenau Gwent
Community: Ebbw Vale South (De Glynebwy)
Community: Ebbw Vale
Built-Up Area: Ebbw Vale
Traditional County: Monmouthshire
Tagged with: Gate
Later C19. The church was built 1860-61 by the Ebbw Vale Iron Company, to the designs of John Norton of London, architect, to serve the growing ironworks town. The upper part of the tower, along with the spire were completed in 1891, to the original plans by Kempson and Fowler in 1891. The gates and railings probably date from the latter period, apparently replacing a wooden fence. Gates and railings (not stamped) probably made at the Ebbw Vale Works.
Railings extend from C20 lychgate immediately NW of church to gates at SW corner of churchyard. Tall and heavily detailed railings set on single course of rock-faced limestone blocks. Railings extend N-S in twelve bays, divided by thick square-section posts, which have leafy capitals and tall moulded finial rising from acanthus-leaf bases. Rails are cruciform in section set on elevated sill-rail. Top rail with subsidiary horizontal rail below: alternating fleur-de-lis and taller three-lobe foliage finials. At S end is pair of rock-faced limestone piers with plinths and chamfered angles; heavy limestone copings with cardinal gablets having blind trefoils. Paired iron gates matching railings.
Well-detailed later C19 churchyard railings. Group value with Christ Church.
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