Lych Gate to Church of St. John the Divine

Lych Gate to Church of St. John the Divine, Acklington Village

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1041919
Date first listed:
15-Sept-1988
List Entry Name:
Lych Gate to Church of St. John the Divine
Statutory Address:
Lych Gate to Church of St. John the Divine, Acklington Village
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1041919
Date first listed:
15-Sept-1988
List Entry Name:
Lych Gate to Church of St. John the Divine
Statutory Address 1:
Lych Gate to Church of St. John the Divine, Acklington Village

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
Lych Gate to Church of St. John the Divine, Acklington Village

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Acklington
National Grid Reference:
NU 22719 01917

Details

NU 20 SW
7/9

ACKLINGTON
ACKLINGTON VILLAGE (South side)
Lych Gate to Church of St.John the Divine

GV
II
Lych gate as World War I memorial,c.1920. Pegged oak frame, with pebbledashed gable infill, on ashlar base; Lakeland slate roof. Low walls with chamfered coping carry open frame. Arched heads to panels flanking entrance, which has a three-centred arch formed by linked braces; cambered and brattished tie-beam with incised gilded inscription. Ogee-arched cusped bargeboards. Panelled double gates with shaped hinges. Each return shows three open arched panels; rear elevation similar to front.

Stone seats and crown-post roof inside.

Listing NGR: NU2271901917


This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online, the War Memorials Register, and the North East War Memorials Project. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 6 September 2018.

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Legacy System number:
236679
Legacy System:
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Sources

Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 8 February 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/33305
War Memorials Online, accessed 8 February 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/165954
North East War Memorials Project, accessed 6 September 2018 from http://www.newmp.org.uk/detail.php?contentId=6269

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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