Lych gate at Emmanuel Church

Lych gate at Emmanuel Church, Church View Close, Arnold, Nottingham, NG5 9QP

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1227459
Date first listed:: 27-Apr-1987
List Entry Name:: Lych gate at Emmanuel Church
Statutory Address:: Lych gate at Emmanuel Church, Church View Close, Arnold, Nottingham, NG5 9QP

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Date:: 1999-09-02
Reference:: IOE01/00841/21
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1227459
Date first listed:: 27-Apr-1987
Date of most recent amendment:: 10-Jun-2025
List Entry Name:: Lych gate at Emmanuel Church
Location Description:
Statutory Address 1:: Lych gate at Emmanuel Church, Church View Close, Arnold, Nottingham, NG5 9QP
Statutory Address 2:: Lych gate at Emmanuel Church, Church View Close, Bestwood

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 Emmanuel Church, Church View Close, Arnold, Nottingham, NG5 9QP
Statutory Address:: Lych gate at Emmanuel Church, Church View Close, Bestwood

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

County:: Nottinghamshire
District:: Gedling (District Authority)
Parish:: St. Albans
National Grid Reference:: SK5659346410

Summary

Lych gate at Emmanuel Church. Built in the mid-19th century by the architect, S S Teulon. The lych gate was relocated to the west end of the church yard in 2009.

Reasons for Designation

The lych gate at Emmanuel Church is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:

Architectural interest:

* a good-quality design in the Gothic Revival style. The lych gate forms a picturesque entrance to the churchyard

Historic interest:

* it has strong historic interest for its design by the architect S S Teulon.

Group value:

* the lych gate has good group value with the Grade II* listed church.

History

Lych gates are the ornamental and often picturesque gateways which lead to churchyards, and which possess a symbolic importance as the thresholds between the secular and sacred zones of a parish. Medieval lych gates were used as a meeting point and shelter for burial parties bringing bodies for interment. The group would convene beneath the lych gate, to be met by the priest prior to entering the consecrated churchyard and beginning funerary rituals. Some lych gates had a slab or rest to hold the coffin, and they often had benches inside. Their name derives from the Anglo-Saxon or German word for corpse: lich, or leiche. Lych gates continued to be built throughout the C19 and C20, and later examples, particularly after the First World War, were often erected as memorial structures.

Emmanuel Church Bestwood (Grade II*, National Heritage List for England(NHLE) entry 1235441) was built as an estate church for the 10th Duke of St. Albans to provide a place of worship for his family and the growing congregation around the Bestwood Lodge estate. It was built between 1868 and 1869 by the architect, S. S. Teulon whose previous work on the estate in the 1860s includes Bestwood Lodge (Grade II*, NHLE entry 1227444), stables (Grade II, NHLE entry 1265261), bakery (Grade II, NHLE entry 1227445), garden walls and gateway (Grade II, NHLE entry 1265367), and Alexandra Lodge (Grade II, NHLE entry 1227457). The lych gate is believed to date to mid-C19, and it is probable that Teulon was also the architect responsible for its design and construction.

The lych gate was originally located at the south-east end of the church yard, the historic entrance to the site, facing the footpath towards Bestwood Lodge. In 2009, following restoration work, the oak frame and gates were relocated to the west end of the church yard, now the main entrance to the grounds, and new Ancaster and Bulwell stone walls were constructed. The original York stone paving and steps, along with the Ancaster and Bulwell stone walls remain in situ. The steps have since been covered over with slab paving to form a ramp.

Details

MATERIALS: the lych gate is built of Ancaster and Bulwell stone and Oak timber under a clay tile roof.

PLAN: the lych gate stands at the western entrance of the churchyard.

DESCRIPTION: the lych gate is a gabled structure with roof ridge running at a right angle to the frontage. The wooden gates are centrally hung between the stone end walls and are decorated with crenellated posts and metal work fittings. The end walls are of rusticated Bulwell stone with dressed Ancaster stone quoins and two tiers of Ancaster stone chamfered coping. The walls support the oak timber framing consisting of chamfered wooden bases with moulded posts and double arch braces. King posts rise above the collar beam with purlins with moulded ends. The roof is covered in hand made clay tiles with decorative ridge tiles.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 425240
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Websites
Heritage Gateway, accessed 05/03/2024 from https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?resourceID=1041&uid=MNT17320
Other
First Edition Ordnanace Survey 1882

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.