Lych Gate and Stone Wall Approximately 5 Metres North East of Church of St Swithin
LYCH GATE AND STONE WALL APPROXIMATELY 5 METRES NORTH EAST OF CHURCH OF ST SWITHIN, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1162185
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Lych Gate and Stone Wall Approximately 5 Metres North East of Church of St Swithin
- Statutory Address:
- LYCH GATE AND STONE WALL APPROXIMATELY 5 METRES NORTH EAST OF CHURCH OF ST SWITHIN, CHURCH LANE
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- Date:
- 2006-10-08
- Reference:
- IOE01/16072/25
- Rights:
- © Mr Hedley R. Hooper. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1162185
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Lych Gate and Stone Wall Approximately 5 Metres North East of Church of St Swithin
- Statutory Address 1:
- LYCH GATE AND STONE WALL APPROXIMATELY 5 METRES NORTH EAST OF CHURCH OF ST SWITHIN, 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 AND STONE WALL APPROXIMATELY 5 METRES NORTH EAST OF CHURCH OF ST SWITHIN, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Shobrooke
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 86316 01107
Details
SHOBROOKE CHURCH LANE SS 80 SE 2/71 Lych-gate and stone wall approx - 5 metres north-east of Church of St Swithin GV II Lych-gate and adjoining stone boundary wall. Lych-gate of circa 1879 by Edward Ashworth; boundary wall probably contemporary. Timber-framed gate with iron fittings and slate roof; volcanic stone wall. Gothick-style, gabled lych-gate, set on C20 concrete plinth where rotted. Box frame of moulded timbers. Sides are weather-boarded below middle rail, S-shaped braces above support wall plate and roof projects front and rear. Gable-end tie-beam trusses with crenellated ties, queen posts and shaped bargeboards. Low pitch slate roof surmounted by fleuree cross. Gates, panelled below middle rail, retain original ironwork. Volcanic stone wall adjoining to right (west) is northern boundary of churchyard. Roughly coursed stone including large amount of square ashlar on rubble plinth. Steeply- weathered coping, some replaced with C20 concrete aggregate. Approximately 3.5 metres right of lych-gate an inscribed stone set below coping reads 'The Goode Heares of Fulford, Churchward, The Yeare 1682'.
Listing NGR: SS8631601107
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 96423
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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