Gate Piers and Gates to Amesbury Abbey, with Flanking Walls Amesbury, England
Listed Building Data
Gate Piers and Gates to Amesbury Abbey, with Flanking Walls has been designated a Grade II* listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1131088
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II*
- Date Listed
- 10 October 1988
- Name
- GATE PIERS AND GATES TO AMESBURY ABBEY, WITH FLANKING WALLS
- Location
- GATE PIERS AND GATES TO AMESBURY ABBEY, WITH FLANKING WALLS, CHURCH STREET
- Parish
- Amesbury
- District
- Wiltshire
- Grid Reference
- SU 15177 41374
- Easting
- 415176.8500
- Northing
- 141373.8700
Listed Building Description
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AMESBURY CHURCH STREET SU 1541 (north side) 11/11 Gate piers and gates to Amesbury Abbey, with flanking wall
II* Gate piers and gates. Piers mid-later C18. Chilmark ashlar and wrought iron gates. Each pier consists of two Tuscan half columns to front flanking a round headed niche. Blank raised panel over. Entablature and triangular pediment. Rear similar but Tuscan pilasters flanking arched recess. Gates, probably C20, with ornamented lock band and dog rails. To right of right pier, a flint and stone chequer wall with tiled coping, approximately 2m high and 8m long, returning as lower boundary wall to graveyard by some 50m to meet nave of church. Lean-to store with fragments of medieval carving, and a pedestrian opening at the church end.
Listing NGR: SU1517741374
