Description

YORK

SE6051SW BISHOPHILL SENIOR
1112-1/21/40 (North East side)
Gates, walls and railings to former
churchyard of St Mary Bishophill
Senior

II

Includes: Wall bounding former churchyard of St Mary
Bishophill Senior CARR LANE.
Walls and railings, with gates and gate piers, bounding former
churchyard of St Mary's Church, Bishophill Senior, to
south-east and south-west (church now demolished). c1860,
incorporating sections of earlier wall. Railings probably from
the Walker Foundry. Walls of coursed dressed stone
incorporating stretch of brick wall; ashlar gate piers;
cast-iron gates and railings.
Carriage gate piers octagonal on plan, with stepped polygonal
caps above moulded cornice; foot gate piers square on plan,
caps lost. Double carriage gates of railings with fleur-de-lys
finials and bands of quatrefoil castings; single pedestrian
gate similar. Walls varying from approximately 1.0 to 1.75
metres in height, with sloped coping, raked-up on south-east
side. Standards octagonal on plan with tapering finials, and
diagonally set railings, with alternating pointed and
fleur-de-lys finials.
The church of St Mary Bishophill Senior was demolished in
1963. In 1859-60, it was restored by JB and W Atkinson, with
whom William Walker frequently worked. Similar gates and
cast-iron piers were ordered from William Walker by the Little
Blake Street Improvement Committee in 1863. Wall to south-east
thought to incorporate remains of wall to possible Saxon
burial ground.
(Pace GG: Bishophill: York: York: 1974-: 6-7; City of York:
RCHME: South-west of the Ouse: HMSO: 1972-: 35-36; York
Historian: Malden J: The Walker Ironfoundry, York,
c.1825-1923: York: 1976-: 37).

Listing NGR: SE6012951408

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26550657

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