THE LYCH GATE AND SOUTH BOUNDARY WALL, CHURCHYARD OF SAINT MARY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1248604
Date first listed:: 06-Mar-1986
List Entry Name:: THE LYCH GATE AND SOUTH BOUNDARY WALL, CHURCHYARD OF SAINT MARY
Statutory Address:: THE LYCH GATE AND SOUTH BOUNDARY WALL, CHURCHYARD OF SAINT MARY

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1248604
Date first listed:: 06-Mar-1986
List Entry Name:: THE LYCH GATE AND SOUTH BOUNDARY WALL, CHURCHYARD OF SAINT MARY
Statutory Address 1:: THE LYCH GATE AND SOUTH BOUNDARY WALL, CHURCHYARD OF SAINT MARY

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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:: THE LYCH GATE AND SOUTH BOUNDARY WALL, CHURCHYARD OF SAINT MARY

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Compton Pauncefoot
National Grid Reference:: ST 64415 26135

Details

COMPTON PAUNCEFOOT CP ST62NW COMPTON PAUNCEFOOT VILLAGE 4/38 The Lych gate and south boundary wall, churthyard of St Mary GV II Boundary wall and gate. Wall probably C19, lych gate early C20. Local stone cut and squared, with Cary stone ashlar to gate; hipped stone tile roof to gateway on oak frame. Wall averages 1 high, and extends along whole of south boundary Gate near south-east corner, set on stone walls at right angles to boundary wall, with heavy pegged oak frame . supporting stone slate roof having almost bell-hip curves, and generous overhang; cross finial to ridge: between stone bases a pair of panelled oak gates about 1 m high. The gate serves as a memorial to both World Wars and this and the boundary wall make an important contribution to the setting of the Church of St Mary (qv) and the street scene in this important corner of the village.

Listing NGR: ST6441526135

This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 16 June 2017.

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War Memorials Register, accessed 16 June 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/24866

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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.