LYCHGATE AND FLANKING CHURCHYARD RAILINGS INCLUDING GATE APPROXIMATELY 50 METRES TO SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS

LYCHGATE AND FLANKING CHURCHYARD RAILINGS INCLUDING GATE APPROXIMATELY 50 METRES TO SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, THE SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1214336
Date first listed:: 24-Nov-1988
List Entry Name:: LYCHGATE AND FLANKING CHURCHYARD RAILINGS INCLUDING GATE APPROXIMATELY 50 METRES TO SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS
Statutory Address:: LYCHGATE AND FLANKING CHURCHYARD RAILINGS INCLUDING GATE APPROXIMATELY 50 METRES TO SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, THE SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1214336
Date first listed:: 24-Nov-1988
List Entry Name:: LYCHGATE AND FLANKING CHURCHYARD RAILINGS INCLUDING GATE APPROXIMATELY 50 METRES TO SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS
Statutory Address 1:: LYCHGATE AND FLANKING CHURCHYARD RAILINGS INCLUDING GATE APPROXIMATELY 50 METRES TO SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, THE SQUARE

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:: LYCHGATE AND FLANKING CHURCHYARD RAILINGS INCLUDING GATE APPROXIMATELY 50 METRES TO SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, THE SQUARE

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

County:: Devon
District:: North Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: North Molton
National Grid Reference:: SS 73684 29899

Details

NORTH MOLTON THE SQUARE (north side), SS 7229-7329 18/190 Lychgate and flanking churchyard - railings including gate approximately 50 metres to south of Church of All Saints GV II Lychgate with flanking railings including gate. Mid to late C19 railings and gate Lychgate added in 1901, by Jaems Crocker of Exeter for Adam Francis Terrell Shapland. Mid to late C19 railings to the east side of the churchyard, with gateway at the right-hand (east) end. Lychgate inserted roughly in the centre of the railings in 1901. Cast-iron railings on low tooled snecked sandstone wall with rounded granite coping. Square-section arrow-head railings, with curved stanchions to rear (north). Wide gateway to right has pair of C19 quatrefoil-section cast-iron porch with moulded cap, and late C20 metal gate between. Timber-framed lychgate with gable-ended concrete plain-tile roof and dressed pink sandstone (almost of ashlar quality) plinths with granite dressings. Plinths with chamfered copings and shaped ends. Superstructure with 4-bay open sides, moulded barge boards and square lead finial on ridge with domed top and cast-iron cross. Five trussed rafters, with ogee arched bracing and outer 2 with collars. Gable ends to front and back have billet ornamented cranked collars and panelled tracery in apex above. Pair of wooden gates to south, with 2 linenfold panels below, 2 pairs of balusters above, scolled tops to outer stiles and decorative wrought-iron strap hinges. Copper plate on inside of left-hand wall, with superscribed lettering: "To the Glory of God/and in loving memory of/JOHN TERRELL SHAPLAND/and CHARLOTTE SHAPLAND./ This Lynch Gate was erected by their affectionate Son/Adam Francis Terrell Shapland of Withycombe House,/ Withycombe Raleigh, Devon; March, 1901." Brass plate on inside of right-hand wall, with superscribed lettering: "In Loving Memory of /A.F. TERRELL SHAPLAND/ Born 5th February 1842 died 18th February 1912./ This Lych Gate was raised by him/To the Glory of God and to the memory of/HIS FATHER AND MOTHER." Signed: "ROGERS, SCULPTORS, EXETER". The lychgate was built at a cost of about £200. Sources: Kelly's Directory of-Devonshire (1902), p. 385.

Listing NGR: SS7367929896

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Sources

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'Kellys Directory' in Devonshire, (1902), 385

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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.