Description

STAINTON AND THORNTON ROAD,
NZ 41 SE (4813) THORNTON east side.

5/128 Boundary wall, gates
and gatepiers of
23.6.66 Church of St. Peter
and St. Paul.
G.V. II
2 pairs of gatepiers, mid/late C17; boundary/retaining wall, C18 and early
C19; and late C19 gates. Dressed sandstone, and iron gates. Wall, with
chamfered copings, encloses north and west sides of churchyard. North
gatepiers have plain bases and shafts, entablature caps with
bolection-moulded frieze and ball-on-stem finials. 2-leaf gates have
diamond vertical bars, the end bars with urn finials; similar plain
pedestrian gate, at right, with short plain piers. West gatepiers similar,
but with ogee-domed caps; up 6 steps. Similar 2-leaf gates. HISTORY:
gatepiers may have been removed here from Thornton Hall, demolished c.1800.
Brick wall adjoining west gatepiers, is not of special interest.

Listing NGR: NZ4799714089

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26432632

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