LYCH GATE TO CHURCH OF ST PAUL

LYCH GATE TO CHURCH OF ST PAUL, MORES LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1197238
Date first listed:: 09-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:: LYCH GATE TO CHURCH OF ST PAUL
Statutory Address:: LYCH GATE TO CHURCH OF ST PAUL, MORES LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1197238
Date first listed:: 09-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:: LYCH GATE TO CHURCH OF ST PAUL
Statutory Address 1:: LYCH GATE TO CHURCH OF ST PAUL, MORES 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 TO CHURCH OF ST PAUL, MORES LANE

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

County:: Essex
District:: Brentwood (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 56640 96696

Details

BRENTWOOD

TQ59NE MORES LANE, Pilgrims Hatch 723-1/5/93 Lych gate to Church of St Paul

GV II

Lych gate. 1878. By EC Lee, architect of St Paul's Church (qv). Oak frame on flint walls with stone cappings, roof of machine-made flat tiles. 2 bays, 3 principal trusses, outer ones with king and queen posts, having arched bracing intersecting at subsidiary posts. Central truss with king post and soulaces, central bracket bracing between king post and collar. Solid braces from posts to moulded tie-beams, arched moulded outer ones with pierced spandrels, octofoil with cross and trefoil. Roof plates project, arched braced from posts. Principal posts have intersecting arched bracing as in roof - outer to inner, inner to outer, wall plate projects with footbracing. Gate now missing. Posts have cruciform finials with trefoil decoration. An inventive design, based on medieval constructional techniques. The lych gate and Church form a group.

Listing NGR: TQ5664096696

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Legacy System number:: 373509
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.