Listed Building record TR 36 NE 2136 - GATES AND GATEPIERS AND SECTION OF CURVED WALL TO MARGATE CEMETERY

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1836 to 1876

Location

Grid reference TR 3506 6929 (point)
Map sheet TR36NE
Civil Parish MARGATE, THANET, KENT
District THANET, KENT

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:

878/0/10041 Gates, gatepiers and section of curved 16-JAN-03 wall to Margate Cemetery
GV II
Gates, gatepiers and linking sections of curved wall. Circa 1856, contemporary with the two cemetery chapels at Margate Cemetery and possibly also designed by Birch of Margate, builder G Hadlow. Cast iron gates comprising central double carriage gates divided by two square cast iron gatepiers from similar cast-iron single pedestrian gates. The gates have spear rails, midrail and dograils and there are further ornamental panels of fleur de lys and quatrefoils. The piers have cross motifs. Adjoining the pedestrian gates are two tall stock brick piers with gabled stone caps. Sections of attached flanking curved brick wall about three feet high with stone coping link to stock brick piers with pyramidal stone caps.


English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

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Record last edited

Feb 19 2008 12:26PM