Gate Piers And Gates Aproximately 30 Metres North East Of Church Of St Oswald And Attached Churchyard Wall To South Gate Piers And Gates Approximately 30 Metres North East Of Church Of St Oswald And Attached Churchyard Wall To South

SJ 2829 SE; 15/49

OSWESTRY C.P., CHURCH STREET (west side), Gate piers and gates approx. 30m north-east of Church of St. Oswald and attached churchyard wall to south

(part formerly listed as Churchyard gates)

10.9.51

GV

II

Gate piers, gates and churchyard wall. Circa 1738, and C19. Gate piers and gates: c1738, probably by the Davies Brothers of Bersham near Wrexham; 2 piers flanking entrance to Broad Walk with another pier at right-angles forming separate gateway; square section with three moulded rectangular bands to each pier, moulded plinths and capping surmounted by ornamental urns; delicate wrought-iron gates have scrollwork and floral enrichment to main pair and urn-capped standards and scrollwork to subsidiary set. Low regularly coursed wall with stone coping, interrupted by pair of C19 piers with blind Gothic tracery, links gate piers with gate piers to south of Church of St. Oswald (q.v.). B.O.E, p. 223.

Listing NGR: SJ2890729401