Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
22525
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
29/10/1999
Date of Amendment
29/10/1999
Name of Property
Entrance Gates and Railings at Christ Church
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Blaenau Gwent
Community
Ebbw Vale
Town
Locality
Ebbw Vale
Easting
316824
Northing
208856
Street Side
E
Location
Church is prominently sited on E side of Church Street, the spire dominating the town. Gates and railings in front of church, along Church Street.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Later C19. The church was built 1860-61 by the Ebbw Vale Iron Company, to the designs of John Norton of London, architect, to serve the growing ironworks town. The upper part of the tower, along with the spire were completed in 1891, to the original plans by Kempson and Fowler in 1891. The gates and railings probably date from the latter period, apparently replacing a wooden fence. Gates and railings (not stamped) probably made at the Ebbw Vale Works.
Exterior
Railings extend from C20 lychgate immediately NW of church to gates at SW corner of churchyard. Tall and heavily detailed railings set on single course of rock-faced limestone blocks. Railings extend N-S in twelve bays, divided by thick square-section posts, which have leafy capitals and tall moulded finial rising from acanthus-leaf bases. Rails are cruciform in section set on elevated sill-rail. Top rail with subsidiary horizontal rail below: alternating fleur-de-lis and taller three-lobe foliage finials. At S end is pair of rock-faced limestone piers with plinths and chamfered angles; heavy limestone copings with cardinal gablets having blind trefoils. Paired iron gates matching railings.
Interior
Reason for designation
Well-detailed later C19 churchyard railings. Group value with Christ Church.
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