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
87238
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
16/12/2005  
Date of Amendment
16/12/2005  
Name of Property
Gatepiers, wall and railings to Montgomery Presbyterian Church  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Powys  
Community
Montgomery  
Town
Montgomery  
Locality
 
Easting
322300  
Northing
296653  
Street Side
 
Location
Situated on roadside in front of the chapel.  

Description


Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary  
Period
 

History
Gatepiers and railings to Presbyterian Church of 1885, the chapel designed by Richard Owens of Liverpool. The two gatepiers are earlier to mid C19 monoliths of sandstone, apparently from a set of four to the Montgomery Gaol, closed in 1878. Two others remain on original driveway, now entrance to Plas Offa, Chirbury Road.  

Exterior
Gatepiers flanked by walls with iron railings. The piers have plain plinths, monolith above with plain stopped chamfers to angles of shaft, then recessed neck under a cross-gabled top. The walls are retaining walls of square tooled blocks with chamfered ashlar coping carrying ornate cast-iron rails with leafs at the bottom and scrolls at the top of each alternate upright and Gothic finials above the top rail, each alternate one taller and larger. Railings stop against stone pier to left and short length of rubble wall to right. Matching tall double gates with the same motif repeated on two levels with bottom and mid-rail of quatrefoils. The piers carry an iron overthrow with three wrought-iron curved rails to which are applied cast-iron stars.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Included for the unusually ornate ironwork, the historic interest of the former gaol gatepiers and for group value with the chapel.  

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