The Churchyard Gates And Boundary Walls To North And West, Church Of St Peter And St Paul

ST7128 WINCANTON CP CHURCH STREET (South side)

8/131 The Churchyard gates and boundary walls to North and West, Church of St Peter and St Paul (formerly listed as Gate Piers and Gates of Churchyard)

24.3.61

GV II

Boundary walls and gates. 1818. Local stone rubble, mostly cut and squared, with ashlar piers; wrought iron gates. North East gateway nearest the town and grander than the others; gatepiers about 600mm square; plinths, rusticated ashlar, moulded flat caps, and Adam style urns as finials, with sweeps of railings with barbed spear points to curved toprail to matching side piers, the central piers being about 3 metres high and the outer 2.5 metres high; gates have barbed spear finals to curved tops, and Greek key ornament to middle rails. The North West gate similar in detail but smaller in scale. The South West gate has plain ashlar piers about 400 mm wide and 2 metres high, with moulded pyramidal caps; the gates have plain points to rails, with quatrefoil in middle rails and applied curves to top rail. Linking walls vary in height with slope of ground but average 1.5 metres; tops finished with cement flaunching. An essential part of the street scene around the church, dating from the extension and enclosure of the churchyard in 1818. Only North East gateway previously listed. (Sweetman G, History of Wincanton, c1904).

Listing NGR: ST7109428513