LYCHGATE AND ADJOINING CHURCHYARD WALLS SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST GWENDRON

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1162651
Date first listed:: 10-Jul-1957
List Entry Name:: LYCHGATE AND ADJOINING CHURCHYARD WALLS SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST GWENDRON
Statutory Address:: LYCHGATE AND ADJOINING CHURCHYARD WALLS SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST GWENDRON

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1162651
Date first listed:: 10-Jul-1957
Date of most recent amendment:: 17-Jun-1988
List Entry Name:: LYCHGATE AND ADJOINING CHURCHYARD WALLS SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST GWENDRON
Statutory Address 1:: LYCHGATE AND ADJOINING CHURCHYARD WALLS SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST GWENDRON

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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 AND ADJOINING CHURCHYARD WALLS SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST GWENDRON

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

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Wendron
National Grid Reference:: SW 67877 31029

Details

SW 63 SE WENDRON WENDRON

4/421 Lychgate and adjoining churchyard walls south of Church of St 10.7.57 Gwendron (formerly listed as Lychgate at entrance to Churchyard)

GV II*

Lychgate with vestry or parish room over, and including adjoining churchyard walls forming south side of churchyard. Probably late C18. Granite ashlar walls. Scantle slate roof with granite coped gable ends. Granite ashlar chimney over the left-hand gable end. Plan: Rectangular plan with wide through passage to ground floor with stone benches at either side and central coffin rest. Room over approached by flight of stone steps from churchyard, with parallel longer flight outside the churchyard walls, to doorway at the right-hand end. Exterior: 2 storeys. Plinth and impost band. Wide central elliptically arched doorway (front and rear) with stepped projecting keystone. Wide window over with probably C20 18-pane 2-light casement. C19 door into parish room and C19 wrought- iron railings to the steps. Fitted to the inner doorway of the lychgate are old dowelled gates. Interior: The chamber above the gateway was not inspected.

Listing NGR: SW6787831030

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Legacy System number:: 66410
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.