LYCH GATE AT SOUTH ENTRANCE TO CHURCHYARD, CHURCH OF ST MARY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1248317
Date first listed:: 30-Nov-1987
List Entry Name:: LYCH GATE AT SOUTH ENTRANCE TO CHURCHYARD, CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address:: LYCH GATE AT SOUTH ENTRANCE TO CHURCHYARD, CHURCH OF ST MARY

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1248317
Date first listed:: 30-Nov-1987
List Entry Name:: LYCH GATE AT SOUTH ENTRANCE TO CHURCHYARD, CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address 1:: LYCH GATE AT SOUTH ENTRANCE TO CHURCHYARD, CHURCH OF ST MARY

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 SOUTH ENTRANCE TO CHURCHYARD, CHURCH OF ST MARY

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Buckland St. Mary
National Grid Reference:: ST 27068 13371

Details

ST21SE BUCKLAND ST MARY CP BUCKLAND ST MARY VILLAGE

5/38 Lychgate at south entrance to churchyard, Church of St Mary

- GV II

Lych gate. Circa 1860, probably to the design of Benjamin Ferrey. Exposed timber frame construction on chert random rubble walls, plain clay tile hipped roof with deep eaves, open at gable ends, modillion sprockets. Single bay. King posts with arch braced struts set on low will, cusped opening, double wooden gales with decorative hinges, and 3-bay arch braced queen post roof inscribed 'Open me the gates,that I may go into them, and give thanks unto the Lord'

Listing NGR: ST2706813371

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Legacy System number:: 429901
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.