LYCH GATE APPROXIMATELY 30 METRES SOUTH-WEST OF CHURCH OF ST OSWALD

LYCH GATE APPROXIMATELY 30 METRES SOUTH-WEST OF CHURCH OF ST OSWALD, UPPER BROOK STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1176650
Date first listed:: 10-Sep-1951
List Entry Name:: LYCH GATE APPROXIMATELY 30 METRES SOUTH-WEST OF CHURCH OF ST OSWALD
Statutory Address:: LYCH GATE APPROXIMATELY 30 METRES SOUTH-WEST OF CHURCH OF ST OSWALD, UPPER BROOK STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1176650
Date first listed:: 10-Sep-1951
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-May-1986
List Entry Name:: LYCH GATE APPROXIMATELY 30 METRES SOUTH-WEST OF CHURCH OF ST OSWALD
Statutory Address 1:: LYCH GATE APPROXIMATELY 30 METRES SOUTH-WEST OF CHURCH OF ST OSWALD, UPPER BROOK STREET

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:: LYCH GATE APPROXIMATELY 30 METRES SOUTH-WEST OF CHURCH OF ST OSWALD, UPPER BROOK STREET

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District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Oswestry
National Grid Reference:: SJ 28826 29330

Details

282SJ9 SE OSWESTRY C.P. UPPER BROOK STREET (north side) 15/102 Lych-gate approx. 30m south-west of Church of 10.9.51 St. Oswald (formerly listed as Lych-gate to church) GV II

Lych-gate. Dated 1631 with considerable later re-modelling. Timber framed structure now supported on C18 walls, repaired late C20, stone slate roof with wooden finials to gables. 4 gables, each with tie beam and collar supported by 2 vertical struts (date 1631 carved on northern collar); tie beams to north and south have slightly cambered arch to centre with mortice and peg holes for former vertical posts. Low stone wall on south side has early C19 cast-iron railings with urn-capped standards and position of gate to centre. Formerly an entrance to the town's grammar school [now Nos. 1 to 3, Church Terrace (q.v.)]; said to be known locally as the Griddle Gate.

Listing NGR: SJ2882729332

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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.