Lychgate About 20 Yards South-west of the Church of St John the Baptist
LYCHGATE ABOUT 20 YARDS SOUTH-WEST OF THE CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1100107
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Lychgate About 20 Yards South-west of the Church of St John the Baptist
- Statutory Address:
- LYCHGATE ABOUT 20 YARDS SOUTH-WEST OF THE CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1100107
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Lychgate About 20 Yards South-west of the Church of St John the Baptist
- Statutory Address 1:
- LYCHGATE ABOUT 20 YARDS SOUTH-WEST OF THE CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST
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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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- LYCHGATE ABOUT 20 YARDS SOUTH-WEST OF THE CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Bromsgrove (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hagley
- National Grid Reference:
- SO9205280741
Details
SO 98 SW HAGLEY CP HAGLEY PARK
2/125 Lychgate about 20 yards
south-west of the
Church of St John
the Baptist
GV II
Lychgate. Dated 1876 and built as a memorial to George William Lyttleton,
fourth Lord Lyttleton. Timber-framed on tall chamfered sandstone ashlar
base; plain tiled gableted roof with overhanging eaves on cusped and
chamfered brackets. Arch-braced brattished tie-beams with quatrefoil tracery
pierced in spandrels. Above tie-beams are two panels with 4-centred heads
and with three cusped, pointed openings. A pair of gates are set beneath
the west archway. The side elevations are of three cusped pointed lights;
in the central light is set a cross on a stepped base and with the transverse
arm intersecting with the flanking mullions. All the timbers are chamfered
and there are inscriptions on the inner and outer faces of the tie-beams,
braces and wall-plates. Within the lychgate there is a bench at each side.
Above the benches are set stone plaques; on the north one is written: "ERECTED
BY FRIENDS AND NEIGHBOURS/ IN HONOURED MEMORY OF/ GEORGE WILLIAM 4TH BARON/
LYTTLETON 1876"; on the south one is written: "LET US THINK OFTEN OF DEATH/
NOT AS THE END OF OUR LIFE/ BUT AS AN EVENT IN OUR LIFE/ L/." The lychgate
is a well-detailed example in a focal position in front of the Church of St
John the Baptist (qv) facing the north-east elevation of Hagley hall (qv).
Included for group value.
Listing NGR: SO9205280741
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 156388
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 20 Hereford and Worcester,
Legal
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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