Steps And Walls Approximately 15 Metres South Of Church Of St Leodegarius is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1987. Steps, walls.
Steps And Walls Approximately 15 Metres South Of Church Of St Leodegarius
- WRENN ID
- patient-hearth-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 March 1987
- Type
- Steps, walls
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
ASHBY ST.LEDGERS MAIN STREET SP5768 (East side) 17/6 Steps and walls approx. 15m. S of Church of St. Leodegarius
GV II
Steps and retaining walls. 1939, by Sir Edwin Lutyens as part of an unexecuted scheme for a cloister. Steps are flanked by piers, ironstone ashlar with limestone coping. Flight of 4 steps within a platform and second flight of 6 steps. Flanking walls, coursed ironstone rubble with ironstone coping. Designs for the cloister show arcades of Tuscan columns with a pitched tile roof raised on a retaining wall to frame approach from Wimbourne altar tomb (q.v.) and cross (g.v.) to south porch of Church. (C. Hussey: Ashby St. Ledgers; Country Life, p.499).
Listing NGR: SP5732568178
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