History

Cast iron gatepiers and gates to St Martin's Cemetery, the principal town cemetery, laid out c. 1860.

Exterior

Two large cast-iron Gothic gatepiers, octagonal openwork with cusped narrow panels on two levels, moulded base and cap. Double cast-iron gates with two rows of long openings, cusped at top and bottom, between three rows of cusped squares, and cresting above top rail. Matching railings on rubble stone walls with stone coping, the railings with cusped squares to top and bottom, cresting and ornate standards with octagonal shafts and big finials. Three bays of railing each side of gates.

Reasons for Listing

Included for their special interest as unusually ornate Victorian decorative cast-iron work at a major public cemetery.

External Links

• Cadwr Listing
• Wikidata Q29507592

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Recommended Books

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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings