LYCH GATE AT THE ENTRANCE TO THE CHURCHYARD OF THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1091790
Date first listed:: 22-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:: LYCH GATE AT THE ENTRANCE TO THE CHURCHYARD OF THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY
Statutory Address:: LYCH GATE AT THE ENTRANCE TO THE CHURCHYARD OF THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1091790
Date first listed:: 22-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:: LYCH GATE AT THE ENTRANCE TO THE CHURCHYARD OF THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY
Statutory Address 1:: LYCH GATE AT THE ENTRANCE TO THE CHURCHYARD OF THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY

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

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:: LYCH GATE AT THE ENTRANCE TO THE CHURCHYARD OF THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY

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

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Tewkesbury (District Authority)
Parish:: Badgeworth
National Grid Reference:: SO 90219 19197

Details

BADGEWORTH BADGEWORTH VILLAGE . SO 91 NW

4/6 Lych gate at the entrance to the churchyard of the Church of the Holy Trinity

GV II

Lych gate with the inscription 'TO THE GLORY OF GOD / AND IN LOVING MEMORY OF JANE UNWIN WHO DIED AUGUST 1916 / THIS LYCH GATE WAS ERECTED BY HER SIX CHILDREN'. Timber-framed lych gate with random squared and dressed stone side walls and stone slate roof. Gable with decorative curved bracing, image niche with the Madonna and child and a crocketed canopy set within king post in gable. Inscription 'HER CHILDREN RISE UP AND CALL HER BLESSED' on the tie- beam. Wide moulded 4-centred arched entrance with pierced spandrels; double gates with pierced panelling at the top, cast iron trellis work and fleur de lys within the open parts; similar panels either side of the lych gate. Two image niches with crocketed canopies containing small wooden statuettes of saints; cusped barge board with a pendant and an upright cross finial. More ornate pierced barge board to the opposite gable. Musical stave and the words 'O rest in the lord' carved on the tie-beam below.

Listing NGR: SO9022119198

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Legacy System number:: 134958
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.