LYCHGATE IN CHURCHYARD OF ST MICHAEL

LYCHGATE IN CHURCHYARD OF ST MICHAEL, CHURCH LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1138496
Date first listed:: 19-May-1986
List Entry Name:: LYCHGATE IN CHURCHYARD OF ST MICHAEL
Statutory Address:: LYCHGATE IN CHURCHYARD OF ST MICHAEL, CHURCH LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1138496
Date first listed:: 19-May-1986
List Entry Name:: LYCHGATE IN CHURCHYARD OF ST MICHAEL
Statutory Address 1:: LYCHGATE IN CHURCHYARD OF ST MICHAEL, CHURCH LANE

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 IN CHURCHYARD OF ST MICHAEL, CHURCH LANE

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

District:: Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Marbury and District
National Grid Reference:: SJ5606145671

Details

MARBURY CUM QUOISLEY C.P. CHURCH LANE SJ 54 NE 2/56 Lychgate in Churchyard of St.Michael GV II War Memorial Lychgate. c.1919. Yellow sandstone ashlar with timber upper body and stone slate roof. Side walls of ashlar with ramped walls to each side and ending in piers with octagonal caps with moulded tops. Timber upper body with cambered tie beams to the gable ends at front and rear supported by angle braces inscribed 1914 at left and 1919 at right. The tie beam is inscribed "To : the : glory : of : GOD : and : in : honoured : memory : of : those : of : this : parish : who : gave : / Their : lives : for : their : country : and whose : names : are : recorded : on : the : tablet : in : the : church". King post above this and arched braces with moulded bargeboards and bargepost. The rear has inscribed on the tie beam "Ye who live in mid English pastures green, Remember us and think what might have been."

Listing NGR: SJ5606145671

This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 26 January 2017.

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Legacy System number:: 57078
Legacy System:: LBS

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War Memorials Register, accessed 26 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/9934

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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.