Description

SOWERBY BRIDGE TOWN GATE
SE 0423 & SE 0523
(east end), Sowerby
12/275
churchyard wall with
3 pairs of gate piers,
2 with gates, to Church
of St Peter
GV II
Churchyard wall with gate piers and gates. Probably c.1766 as church (q.v.) wall
partly rebuilt C20. Millstone grit, coursed and squared to wall; cast-iron
gates. Wall: low with chamfered coping. A short section of railing survives to
east of gateway opposite church main door, and has plain bars and one urn-finialed standard with scrolled bracket. Other sections of railing removed though coping on inner side of wall rises at intervals to support former brackets to standards.
On inside of wall are projecting chamfered blocks, incised, on north, south and
west walls, with letters of the alphabet, and on east wall with numbers running
from 20-54. These blocks formed the basis of a system for identifying grave
plots. The wall is broken through to east of the church chancel, the coping is
removed from the north end of the eastern wall, and the eastern end of the north
wall has been replaced in the C20. The wall is interrupted by 3 gateways. That
to west of church tower has 2-stage monolithic piers, square in section, the upper stage narrower, with shallow corniced, pyramidal caps and gates removed. The gateway to south of church south door has gate piers as west gateway, but with necking, and retains 2-leaf gate with spiked bars, dog-bars with arrowhead finials and urn-finialed hinge bars. The gateway to south of church priest's door is similar, but the right-hand gate has been removed and at time of resurvey lay on ground inside churchyard.

Listing NGR: SE0424423211

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26600187

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Recommended Books

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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas