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:: LYCHGATE ABOUT 20 YARDS SOUTH-WEST OF THE CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST

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Official list entry

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

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:: 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

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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 20 Hereford and Worcester,

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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.