York Historic Environment Record

YORK SE6051SW CROMWELL ROAD 1112-1/21/277 (North East side) Boundary walls to Friends' Burial Ground GV II Includes: Walls bounding the Friends' Burial Ground CARR LANE Walls bounding the Friends' Burial Ground to north-west, north-east, south-east and south-west, interrupted to south-west by Tuke House. Wall to north west forms southern side of Carr Lane. C18 and C19, probably incorporating sections of C17 wall; part on Carr Lane side medieval or earlier. Early parts of rubble stone; later parts of orange-red and variegated red brick, some in English garden-wall bond, some random bond; brick and stone copings. Access from Cromwell Road through board double doors in segment-arched gateway. Walls vary in height, from 1.75 metres approximately to 2.75 and 3.0 metres approximately, ramped-up in places and raked along Carr Lane. Earlier walls have dwarf pilaster buttresses on inner side and flat or sloped copings of brick; C19 wall has chamfered stone coping. (Pace GG: Bishophill: York: York: 1974-: 7). Listing NGR: SE6017451351