Lych Gate at Church of St Mary the Virgin

LYCH GATE AT CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, GREAT WARLEY STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1206677
Date first listed:
16-Mar-1993
Statutory Address:
LYCH GATE AT CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, GREAT WARLEY STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1206677
Date first listed:
16-Mar-1993
Statutory Address 1:
LYCH GATE AT CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, GREAT WARLEY STREET

Location

Statutory Address:
LYCH GATE AT CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, GREAT WARLEY STREET

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 58922 89995

Details

BRENTWOOD

TQ58NE GREAT WARLEY STREET, Great Warley 723-1/10/145 (West side) 16/03/93 Lych gate at Church of St Mary the Virgin

GV II*

Lych gate. 1903. By C Harrison Townsend. Oak framed on a stone base, peg-tiled roof. 2 bays, 3 trusses, side purlins with axially braced queen posts, tie-beams with shaped braces, principal posts braced 4 ways down to cruciform sole plates, decorated with cyma and quarter round mouldings with variously decorated stops, principally leaves. Barge boards bracketed out and carved with leaves and fruit. Inscribed tie-beam and plaque above commemorating building in 1903 in reign of King Edward VII. Gate, 2-leaved of heavy oak framed boards in Art Nouveau style, serpentine top with berry finials. Heavy clasping hinges with exaggerated stud heads. The lych gate forms a group with the Church (qv).

Listing NGR: TQ5892289995

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