Lychgate in Churchyard of St Michael
LYCHGATE IN CHURCHYARD OF ST MICHAEL, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- 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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- Reference:
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- Rights:
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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 1:
- LYCHGATE IN CHURCHYARD OF ST MICHAEL, 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:
- 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.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 57078
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 26 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/9934
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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