Description

CREWKERNE

ST4409 YEOVIL ROAD
876-1/7/174 (South side)
Entrance gates, gate piers, walls
and railings to Townsend Cemetery

II

Walls, gate piers, gates and railings. c1874. Limestone
rubble, Ham Hill stone ashlar and cast-iron. A revetment wall
encloses the garden of the lodge to the north and curves round
to the gates at the west; this has recessed panels with Ham
Hill stone plinth capping to plinth and top. To the right,
extending approx 60m, is a castellated rubblestone boundary
wall. For approx 55m, a low boundary wall with plinth capping,
separates a footpath from the drive; it supports railings of 3
horizontal spiked rails, the lower ones set into the plinth,
the upper rail has spikes above and below. The 4 substantial
gate piers have steep, stepped pyramidal tops with crocketed
finials, stiff-leaf cornices and stepped-back corners with
inset colonnettes. The gates, single to the sides, double to
the centre, have 5 horizonal bars, long/short railings to the
base, a diagonal cross pattern to the centre and trefoil-type
finials along the tops. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: ST4483909956

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26580989

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