Gatepiers, Gates And Attached Walled Garden To East Of Church Of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1987. Gatepiers, garden.

Gatepiers, Gates And Attached Walled Garden To East Of Church Of St Mary

WRENN ID
silver-tracery-swallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cherwell
Country
England
Date first listed
9 December 1987
Type
Gatepiers, garden
Source
Historic England listing

Description

SP61NW AMBROSDEN MERTON ROAD (North side)

11/5 Gatepiers, gates and attached walled garden to E of Church of St. Mary

GV II

Gatepiers and walled garden. Piers c.1690; walls probably contemporary or early C18. Limestone ashlar; coursed squared rubble and brick. Ashlar piers have moulded bases and caps, hanging strips with scrolled tops, and vase finials carved with gadrooning and acanthus; C20 gates. Walled garden, roughly square in plan, has rubble walls 2-3 metres high with flat copings, except on the west, bordering the churchyard, where the coping is triangular with an apex roll; blocked doorways to south and east have brick segmental arches; the top half of the inner face is lined with brick. The walls form a complete circuit except for approximately 10 metres of the south wall adjoining the gates, which have been lowered. (V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol. V, p.28).

Listing NGR: SP6032519428

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