Latitude: 54.4503 / 54°27'0"N
Longitude: -0.6657 / 0°39'56"W
OS Eastings: 486614
OS Northings: 506915
OS Grid: NZ866069
Mapcode National: GBR RJSZ.PG
Mapcode Global: WHGB3.RD6Q
Plus Code: 9C6XF82M+4P
Entry Name: Gate Piers and Part of Churchyard Wall to Church of St John the Evangelist
Listing Date: 6 October 1969
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1148797
English Heritage Legacy ID: 327531
ID on this website: 101148797
Location: Eskdaleside, North Yorkshire, YO22
County: North Yorkshire
District: Scarborough
Civil Parish: Eskdaleside cum Ugglebarnby
Built-Up Area: Sleights
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): North Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Eskdaleside (or Sleigts) St John
Church of England Diocese: York
Tagged with: Gatepost
ESKDALESIDE-CUM-UGGLEBARNBY COACH ROAD
NZ8606-8706
(east side), Sleights
18/59 Gate piers and part of
churchyard wall to
6.10.69
Church of St.John the
Evangelist
GV II
Churchyard gate piers and walls. Dated 1761 with C20 gates and overthrow.
By Robert and Tabitha Bowers, and Gertrude Burdett. Gate piers and walls
of tooled sandstone. Rusticated square-section gate piers oil alternately
rectangular and cylindrical blocks; flat caps and ball finials on bell
shaped pedestals. Flanking walls support foliate volutes on each side of
gateway. Walls have cambered coping and are ramped up to four obelisk
pinnacles. Obelisks have blind Gothick tracery to each face and tall
panelled dies. South west obelisk has inscribed vertical sundials on two
faces, and the inscription:
R B T 1761 GB / UT UMBRA SIC VITA
Walls mark the extent of the churchyard of the Eskdale Chapel built by the
same patrons to replace the original Eskdale Chapel (q.v.) inconveniently
sited elsewhere in the parish. C18 chapel subsequently replaced by
present Church of St.John the Evangelist, of 1895.
Listing NGR: NZ8661406915
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