Lych Gate
LYCH GATE, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1117492
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Lych Gate
- Statutory Address:
- LYCH GATE, CHURCH LANE
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- Date:
- 2001-08-27
- Reference:
- IOE01/04519/22
- Rights:
- © Mr Barry F. White. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1117492
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 02-May-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Lych Gate
- Statutory Address 1:
- LYCH GATE, CHURCH LANE
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.
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:
- LYCH GATE, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Windsor and Maidenhead (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bray
- National Grid Reference:
- SU9017279645
Details
SU 9079
22/7
25.3.55
BRAY
CHURCH LANE
(north side)
Lych Gate (formerly
Listed as Lych Gate,
St Michael's Cottage)
G.V.
II*
Gate-house, probably a chantry-house with lych gate under. Early C15, altered early C20. Timber
frame, part render, part brick infill. Old tile gabled roof. Rectangular plan of 4 framed bays
with east wing listed separately (22/8) forming an L-plan. Jettied front and back; passage
through under with lych gate on north. 2 storeys. One tall early C20 chimney on west wall with
clay pot. Diamond-leaded casement windows. South front: gabled 4-light oriel window on first
floor with small tiled pent roof and coved apron; moulded wooden cill and 4 carved brackets. 2-
light side-sliding casement on right with folding panelled shutters on each side; archway with 4
centred head with arched spandrels, old brickwork below. North front: gabled with C19 carved
bargeboard. 3-light sliding casement oriel window on first floor with small, tiled, pent roof.
long, fixer window on ground floor with 9 turned wooden balusters in front on cill, within depth of
reveal. 4-centred, hollow chamfered wooden arch on right with moulded spandrels over lych gate.
Passage through has C17 brickwork on each side and long tension braces with entrance door on east
wall; stone setts on floor. Wooden lych gate and fence with middle rail and flat plain balusters.
Interior: good quality timber frame exposed with redundant crown post roof trusses and arched
windbraces, chamfered.
VCH (Vol. III), p.93, B.O.E. (Berkshire), p.100
Listing NGR: SU9017279645
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 41026
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 100
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1906), 93
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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