Building record 607/1/2 - Steps & Walls c.15m South of Church of St. Leodegarius

{1} Steps and retaining walls. 1939, by Sir Edwin Lutyens as part of an unexecuted scheme for a cloister. Steps are flanked by piers, ironstone ashlar with limestone coping. Flight of 4 steps within a platform and second flight of 6 steps. Flanking walls, coursed ironstone rubble with ironstone coping. Designs for the cloister show arcades of Tuscan columns with a pitched tile roof raised on a retaining wall to frame approach from Wimbourne altar tomb (q.v.) and cross (g.v.) to south porch of Church.

{4} Undated photo;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 17/6 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), F04 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN44900.

<3> Hussey C., 1951, Ashby St. Ledgers, p.499 (unchecked) (Journal). SNN105306.

<4> Photographs of buildings in Ashby St Ledgers (Photographs). SNN111860.

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Feb 12 2020 11:49AM