Description

MAWGAN-IN-PYDAR ST MAWGAN
SW 86 NE
1/93
Kitchen garden walls
with gate piers about
30 metres south west
of Lanherne Carmelite
Convent
GV II*

Kitchen garden walls with gate piers. Early C18. Slatestone rubble walls, with
an inner facing of brick; the brickwork has each course of alternating headers
and stretchers. Piers in dressed greenstone with limestone capitals. Plan:
Roughly rectangular plan kitchen garden, with the gate piers at the north east
side, enclosing about one acre. The walls are about 4 metres high, with a single
gateway with wooden door on the south west side. The gate piers are about
3 metres high, of square plan, with a limestone cornice and acorn finials. The
gateway is blocked in brick. There is a tunnel leading from Lanherne Carmelite
convent, under the road, to give direct access into the kitchen garden.

Listing NGR: SW8708365837

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17534871

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Recommended Books

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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014