LYCH GATE AT PARISH CHURCH (20 METRES NORTH EAST OF CHANCEL)

LYCH GATE AT PARISH CHURCH (20 METRES NORTH EAST OF CHANCEL), CHURCH LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1213948
Date first listed:: 30-Apr-1985
List Entry Name:: LYCH GATE AT PARISH CHURCH (20 METRES NORTH EAST OF CHANCEL)
Statutory Address:: LYCH GATE AT PARISH CHURCH (20 METRES NORTH EAST OF CHANCEL), CHURCH LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1213948
Date first listed:: 30-Apr-1985
List Entry Name:: LYCH GATE AT PARISH CHURCH (20 METRES NORTH EAST OF CHANCEL)
Statutory Address 1:: LYCH GATE AT PARISH CHURCH (20 METRES NORTH EAST OF CHANCEL), 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 AT PARISH CHURCH (20 METRES NORTH EAST OF CHANCEL), 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:: Thorley
National Grid Reference:: TL 47626 18866

Details

TL 41 NE THORLEY CHURCH LANE (west side) Thorley village

4/10 Lych Gate at Parish Church - (20 metres NE of chancel)

GV II

Lych gate. Circa 1909 (memorial inscription). Possibly designed by Eustace Frere. Elaborate oak timberframed gateway on dressed limestone plinth with steep gabled tiled roof. Billet moulded sinuous carved bracketed bargeboards with cross on lozenge at apex. Chamfered cambered tie beams carrying king post and curved struts. Deep wooden seat each side in framed and weatherboarded outshot with 2-light trefoil headed wooden traceried openings in upper part. Decorative pair of low wooden gates to lane.

Listing NGR: TL4762618866

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Legacy System number:: 398624
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.