Gates and railings to west of St Nicholas' churchyard, St Ann's Street

Gates and railings to west of St Nicholas' churchyard, St Ann's Street

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1195422
Date first listed:
07-Jun-1972
List Entry Name:
Gates and railings to west of St Nicholas' churchyard, St Ann's Street
Statutory Address:
Gates and railings to west of St Nicholas' churchyard, St Ann's Street
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1195422
Date first listed:
07-Jun-1972
Date of most recent amendment:
26-Jul-1993
List Entry Name:
Gates and railings to west of St Nicholas' churchyard, St Ann's Street
Statutory Address 1:
Gates and railings to west of St Nicholas' churchyard, St Ann's Street

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:
Gates and railings to west of St Nicholas' churchyard, St Ann's Street

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Norfolk
District:
King's Lynn and West Norfolk (District Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
TF 61808 20456

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 16 August 2021 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards

TF6120SE
610-1/7/213

KING'S LYNN
ST ANN'S STREET (East side)
Gates and railings to west of St Nicholas' churchyard

(Formerly listed as Gates and Railings to east of St Nicholas' Churchyard, previously listed as: ST ANN'S STREET Gateway to St Nicholas Churchyard)

07/06/72

GV
II

Gates, gate piers and railings. 1749. Wrought-iron on brick plinth wall. Main gate to south supported by gault brick piers with moulded stone coping carrying bulbous urn finials. Pair of gates of square section verticals, panel middle rail with subsidiary fleur-de-lys crest. Gates are border-hung. On top rail is an elaborate ramped overthrow with scrolled tendrils and the date 1749. Low red brick plinth walling with ashlar coping follows line of street north to secondary gate in front of west door of church. Double gates hung on heavy stiles terminating in urn finials: scrolled middle rail, square section verticals and a scrolled overthrow rising to a square lamp bracket. Railings continue north to a north gate: plain. Railings themselves have square section verticals set diagonally, their stiles also square section with urn finials.

Listing NGR: TF6180820456

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
384264
Legacy System:
LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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