Description

CHESTER CITY (EM)

SJ4065 HANDBRIDGE
1932-1/8/169 (North West side)
10/01/72 Wall, railings and gates to St
Mary's Churchyard and Rectory
(Formerly Listed as:
OVERLEIGH ROAD
Churchyard Wall to Parish Church of
St Mary Without-the-Walls)

GV II

Wall, railings and gates to St Mary's Handbridge (qv)
churchyard and end of adjoining drive to Rectory, Overleigh
Road (qv). 1887. By FB Wade at expense of the first Duke of
Westminster. Rock-faced sandstone and wrought-iron. Battered
wall approx 1m high with hollow-chamfered copings and gabled
bay-piers with niches; cross-gabled gate piers to 3 gateways
to church and one to Rectory. Wrought-iron railings on walls
with "barleysugar" bars, ornamental quatrefoil panels with
double ribs, those at top with foliar scrollwork. Ornate
wrought-iron gates, 2 pedestrian and one for carriages to
churchyard and one for carriages to Rectory drive.

Listing NGR: SJ4069165431

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q96096377

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Recommended Books

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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)