Lychgate at Monton Unitarian Church

LYCHGATE AT MONTON UNITARIAN CHURCH, MONTON GREEN

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1067502
Date first listed:
16-Jul-1987
List Entry Name:
Lychgate at Monton Unitarian Church
Statutory Address:
LYCHGATE AT MONTON UNITARIAN CHURCH, MONTON GREEN
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1067502
Date first listed:
16-Jul-1987
List Entry Name:
Lychgate at Monton Unitarian Church
Statutory Address 1:
LYCHGATE AT MONTON UNITARIAN CHURCH, MONTON GREEN

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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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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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Location

Statutory Address:
LYCHGATE AT MONTON UNITARIAN CHURCH, MONTON GREEN

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

District:
Salford (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SJ 76501 99579

Details

ECCLES MONTON GREEN SJ 79 NE (north side) 4/11 Lychgate at Monton - Unitarian Church G.V. II Lychgate. "Erected 1895" inscribed on rear. Possibly by T.Worthington. Ashlar with cast-iron gates. Gables to front and rear above a pointed archway. Gothic Revival. The arch is heavily moulded and has side colonnettes and a hoodmould with carved angelic stops. Within the coped gable is a carved figure within a canopied niche above an inscription: "In memory of Henry Leigh". Cross finials. 2 weathered and gableted buttresses to either side. Elaborate cast-iron gates.

Listing NGR: SJ7650199579

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211944
Legacy System:
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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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