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Latitude: 53.9498 / 53°56'59"N
Longitude: -1.0728 / 1°4'22"W
OS Eastings: 460949
OS Northings: 450811
OS Grid: SE609508
Mapcode National: GBR NQYR.JV
Mapcode Global: WHFC3.HZCC
Plus Code: 9C5WWWXG+WV
Entry Name: York Cemetery Railings, Gates, Gate Piers and Terminal Piers on West Boundary
Listing Date: 24 June 1983
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1259306
English Heritage Legacy ID: 463024
ID on this website: 101259306
Location: Clementhorpe, York, North Yorkshire, YO10
County: York
Electoral Ward/Division: Fishergate
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: York
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): North Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: York St Lawrence with St Nicholas
Church of England Diocese: York
Tagged with: Architectural structure
YORK
SE6050NE CEMETERY ROAD
1112-1/25/148 (East side)
24/06/83 York Cemetery railings, gates, gate
piers and terminal piers on west
boundary
GV II
Carriage and pedestrian gates and gate piers; railings and
terminal piers. 1837, designed by J P Pritchett, manufactured
by John Walker of Walmgate; carriage gates replaced 1880,
manufactured by William Walker. Gates and railings of
cast-iron; piers of ashlar.
Gates are of turned bars and dogbars with ornate spearhead
finials and bulbous mouldings at mid height. These are
supported on 3 square gate piers with domed caps, the outer
faces of which are incised with attenuated Greek fret motifs,
the caps with anthemion. Railings are square section and set
diagonally in dwarf stone wall with cambered coping.
Intermediate piers approximately 5.0 metres high are square on
plan and chamfered and tapered to domed caps. Terminal piers
to north and south are approximately 5.5 metres high with
moulded cornices, that to north carrying a sarcophagus, to the
south a sphynx.
(An Inventory of the Historical Monuments of the City of York:
RCHME: Outside the City Walls East of the Ouse: HMSO: 1975-:
29; York Historian: Malden J: The Walker Ironfoundry, York,
c.1825-1923: York: 1976-: 48).
Listing NGR: SE6094950811
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