South Gateway And Stocks Immediately South East With Steps And Railings, Church Of All Saints

South Gateway & Stocks etc, Church Street 12/240 9/240

South Gateway & Stocks etc, Church Street 12/240 9/240

------------------------------------ ST4619 MARTOCK CP CHURCH STREET (West side)

12/240 South gateway and stocks immediately south-east, with steps and railings, Church of All Saints 19.4.61

GV II

Gateway, steps and stocks. Gateway dated 1627. Ham stone, with wrot iron work. In form of short, tall ashlar wall with stepped angled coping, returned down the sides, with 3 pinnacles on top, framing a moulded semi-circular archway with false keystone and impost blocks; with an approach of 4 steps with matching baluster walls ending in square piers with bell-hip caps. The gates early C19, featuring Gothic arches, scrolls, barbed arrowpoints and other Regency style decoration; railings to corners formed by projecting stairs set on low stone base now almost sunken, having plain arrowhead tops; on south-west side railings enclose a notice board, and on south-east the stocks, 4 leg-holes with iron straps, under wrot iron and oak plank roof. An inscription over the archway reads: Robert Jeane and Thomas Row, Churchwardens, Ano Dni 1627".

Listing NGR: ST4612319122