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Description: Churchyard wall with 3 pairs of gatepiers, 2 with gates, to Church of St Peter

Address: Churchyard Wall St Peters Church St Peters Avenue Sowerby Sowerby Bridge Calderdale

Grade: II

Group detail: Town Gate (east end), Sowerby

Full description:
Churchyard wall with gate piers and gates. Probably c1766 as church (q.v.) wall partly rebuilt C20. Millstone grit, coursed and squared to wall; cast-iron gates. Wall: low with chamfered coping. A short section of railing survives to east of gateway opposite church main door, and has plain bars and one urn-finialed standard with scrolled bracket. Other sections of railing removed though coping on inner side of wall rises at intervals to support former brackets to standards. On inside of wall are projecting chamfered blocks, incised, on north, south and west walls, with letters of the alphabet, and on east wall with numbers running from 20-54. These blocks formed the basis of a system for identifying grave plots. The wall is broken through to east of the church chancel, the coping is removed from the north end of the eastern wall, and the eastern end of the north wall has been replaced in the C20. The wall is interrupted by 3 gateways. That to west of church tower has 2-stage monolithic piers, square in section, the upper stage narrower, with shallow corniced, pyramidal caps and gates removed. The gateway to south of church south door has gate piers at west gateway, but with necking, and retains 2-leaf gate with spiked bars, dog-bars with arrow-head finials and urn-finialed hinge bars. The gateway to south of church priest's door is similar, but the right-hand gate has been removed and at time of resurvey lay on ground inside churchyard.