LYCH GATE, BRIDGE AND RETAINING WALL TO CHURCHYARD AT CHURCH OF ST MARY

LYCH GATE, BRIDGE AND RETAINING WALL TO CHURCHYARD AT CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1176674
Date first listed:: 20-Apr-1988
List Entry Name:: LYCH GATE, BRIDGE AND RETAINING WALL TO CHURCHYARD AT CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address:: LYCH GATE, BRIDGE AND RETAINING WALL TO CHURCHYARD AT CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1176674
Date first listed:: 20-Apr-1988
List Entry Name:: LYCH GATE, BRIDGE AND RETAINING WALL TO CHURCHYARD AT CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address 1:: LYCH GATE, BRIDGE AND RETAINING WALL TO CHURCHYARD AT CHURCH OF ST MARY, 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:: LYCH GATE, BRIDGE AND RETAINING WALL TO CHURCHYARD AT CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH LANE

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

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Bayford
National Grid Reference:: TL 30960 08813

Details

TL 3008 BAYFORD CHURCH LANE (West side)

5/18 Lych Gate, Bridge and - Retaining Wall to churchyard at Church of St. Mary

GV II

Lych gate, bridge and retaining wall. 1870-71 by Henry Woodyer as outworks of St. Mary's Church he built for William Robert Baker of Bayfordbury (q.v.). Oak frame, Kentish ragstone bridge and sidewalls, wall of alternate bands of Kentish ragstone and red brick, hipped and gabletted roof of red tile with wrought iron foliate cross on top. A small square lych gate raised on the low parapets of the bridge over the ha ha with banded retaining wall which was constructed as the new boundary to the churchyard extended to SE and SW when the new church was built to the S of the former church. 4 posts on sill beams N-S with convex quadrant bracing to sill and arched bracing to wallplates N-S and to 2 tie-beams E-W extending beyond wallplates with support from outer braces from posts. Single-bay crown-post roof with square posts and axial curved braces. Pierced boarding infill of gablets similar to gabled vents in church roof. Ragstone infill wall between side-posts and simple double gate. Special brick-on-edge red coping to retaining wall. Pointed arch to watercourse under bridge.

Listing NGR: TL3096008813

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Legacy System number:: 160626
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.