Main entrance gate, railings and flanking walls at St Woolos Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Newport local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 September 1999. A C14 Gate.

Main entrance gate, railings and flanking walls at St Woolos Cemetery

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Newport
Country
Wales
Date first listed
14 September 1999
Type
Gate
Source
Cadw listing

Description

Tall steeply gabled arched entry of squared red sandstone with Bathstone detail, including quoins and copings. Arch of two orders, the outer with a hollow moulding, the inner dying into the arch at impost level, C14 style. Hoodmould with foliage finial. Empty niche above with crocketted ogee canopy. Pedestrian arch to left with parapet stepped up to centre over tablet containing blank shield. Arches separated by low buttresses, which have gablets with blind trefoils. Main gate has iron gates ramped down to centre. End buttresses stepped down to low wall each side, built of red sandstone with Bathstone chamfered copings: low iron railings with a simple pattern of trefoils within triangles. Walls and railings return each end to the street frontage, terminated by big broach stops, and piers with octagonal upper stages having blind quatrefoils and blunt spirelets.

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