Lych gate and southern boundary wall to Church of St John
Church of St John, East Beach, Lytham St Annes, FY8 5EX
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218906
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jan-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Lych gate and southern boundary wall to Church of St John
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St John, East Beach, Lytham St Annes, FY8 5EX
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- Date:
- 1999-08-28
- Reference:
- IOE01/01656/08
- Rights:
- © Mr G M Smith. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218906
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jan-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Lych gate and southern boundary wall to Church of St John
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St John, East Beach, Lytham St Annes, FY8 5EX
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St John, East Beach, Lytham St Annes, FY8 5EX
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Fylde (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lytham
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 37101 27105
Details
SD3627
621-1/4/56
LYTHAM ST ANNES
Lytham
EAST BEACH (North side)
Lych gate and southern boundary wall to Church of St John
13/01/71
GV
II
Formerly known as: Boundary wall to St. John's Churchyard EAST BEACH.
Lych gate and churchyard wall. Lychgate dated 1897 on beam; the wall mid-late C19. Pebble walling with sandstone dressings; timber-framed lych gate with fishscale slate roof.
The wall, bounding the south side of the churchyard and terminating at the east end in a short return at the junction with the garden wall of No.24A East Beach, is approximately1 metre high; with a chamfered plinth, piers, and band with coping allof sandstone, forming panels approximately 2 metres long which are filled with coursed pebbles.
The lychgate opposite the south door of the church, has an open timber framework with arch-braces and Tudor-arched openings to each side; low wooden gates each with three panels and four arched openings, stiles decorated with scrolls, and ornamental strap hinges; and an overhanging roof with terracotta ridge tiles and wooden finials (that at the west end missing at time of survey 1990).
HISTORY: lych gate erected 1897 in memory of Rev. T.G. Smart M.A., Vicar of this parish 1870 to 1896 (inscription to this effect on beam).
Included for group value with Church of St John (q.v.); in prominent position opposite windmill (q.v.) and Lytham Green.
Listing NGR: SD3710127105
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 385274
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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