Entrance walls and piers, Chippenham Cemetery (Chippenham)

United Kingdom / England / Chippenham / London Road
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Walls and piers to cemetery. c1854. Limestone rubble with ashlar coping and piers. The walls, approx 2m high with chamfered coping and foliate stops to the outer edge, cant forward for approx 8m to meet tall gabled piers, they then extend approx 50m to the right with simpler chamfered capping, and 60m to the left where it steps back after approx 30m. The wall to the right extends back for approx 140m and turns to form the rear wall for approx 30m. It once enclosed the graveyard but part has been demolished to form a new rear entrance.

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Coordinates:   51°27'0"N   2°5'50"W
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