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Entrance Walls and Piers, Chippenham Cemetery

A Grade II Listed Building in Chippenham, Wiltshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.4508 / 51°27'2"N

Longitude: -2.0972 / 2°5'49"W

OS Eastings: 393343

OS Northings: 172427

OS Grid: ST933724

Mapcode National: GBR 2SJ.YCJ

Mapcode Global: VH96C.LSNP

Plus Code: 9C3VFW23+84

Entry Name: Entrance Walls and Piers, Chippenham Cemetery

Listing Date: 22 June 1978

Last Amended: 16 September 1996

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1268054

English Heritage Legacy ID: 462280

ID on this website: 101268054

Location: Wiltshire, SN15

County: Wiltshire

Civil Parish: Chippenham

Built-Up Area: Chippenham

Traditional County: Wiltshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Wiltshire

Church of England Parish: Chippenham with Tytherton Lucas

Church of England Diocese: Bristol

Tagged with: Wall

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Description



CHIPPENHAM

ST9372 LONDON ROAD
930-1/13/82 (South side)
22/06/78 Entrance walls and piers, Chippenham
Cemetery
(Formerly Listed as:
LONDON ROAD
Forecourt walls of Chippenham
Cemetery)

II

Walls and piers to cemetery. c1854. Limestone rubble with
ashlar coping and piers. The walls, approx 2m high with
chamfered coping and foliate stops to the outer edge, cant
forward for approx 8m to meet tall gabled piers, they then
extend approx 50m to the right with simpler chamfered capping,
and 60m to the left where it steps back after approx 30m. The
wall to the right extends back for approx 140m and turns to
form the rear wall for approx 30m. It once enclosed the
graveyard but part has been demolished to form a new rear
entrance.


Listing NGR: ST9334372427

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