16639

 

II  

Designated  

29/02/1996  

29/02/1996  

Retaining walls, steps, gate-piers and gates to churchyard at Church of St Mary  

 

Powys  

Welshpool  

 

Welshpool  

322543  

307636  

NW  

The walls form the boundary of the churchyard on the S and SW sides, with a steep flight of steps leading from Church Bank, and further entrances at t  

Religious, Ritual and Funerary  

 

 

History: The walls were said to have been rebuilt c1830, when the road level was altered. New steps from Church Street were provided in 1877, designed by a Mr Hurst (the borough surveyor), and erected by public subscription. The cast-iron gates at all entrances to the churchyard are all of similar style and were probably installed at the time that these new steps were provided. Description: Roughly coursed and squared rubble retaining walls with a slight batter, and buttresses. Steps from Church Street have ashlar gate piers with ornate cast-iron gates at their foot, and cast-iron rails; there are similar gates at the Red Bank and Union Street entrances. Cast-iron lamp base mounted on a pier at the Union Street gate. A prominent feature of the approach to the church. Reference: M.C.J. 'Welshpool: Notes for the History of the Borough', Montgomeryshire Collections, Vol. 15, 1882, pp.272, 291.