Lychgate and Attached Walls to Cemetery

LYCHGATE AND ATTACHED WALLS TO CEMETERY, PLUMTREE ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1248718
Date first listed:
13-Nov-1986
List Entry Name:
Lychgate and Attached Walls to Cemetery
Statutory Address:
LYCHGATE AND ATTACHED WALLS TO CEMETERY, PLUMTREE ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1248718
Date first listed:
13-Nov-1986
List Entry Name:
Lychgate and Attached Walls to Cemetery
Statutory Address 1:
LYCHGATE AND ATTACHED WALLS TO CEMETERY, PLUMTREE ROAD
Statutory Address 2:
LYCHGATE AND ATTACHED WALLS TO CEMETERY, SCRIMSHIRE LANE

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
LYCHGATE AND ATTACHED WALLS TO CEMETERY, PLUMTREE ROAD
Statutory Address:
LYCHGATE AND ATTACHED WALLS TO CEMETERY, SCRIMSHIRE LANE

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

County:
Nottinghamshire
District:
Rushcliffe (District Authority)
Parish:
Cotgrave
National Grid Reference:
SK6438135274

Details

SK 63 NW COTGRAVE On the corner of
PLUMTREE ROAD
(south side) and
SCRIMSHIRE LANE
(west side)

3/58 Lychgate and
attached walls to
cemetery

II

Lychgate and attached walls. 1899. Built for the third Earl
Manvers. Ashlar, wood and iron. Lychgate with double wooden
gate flanked by single ashlar walls at right angles to the gate.
The walls are surmounted by open wooden framing which support the
hipped slate roof with sprocketed eaves and single corner carved
animal heads. Ridge with decorative cross. Flanking the ashlar
walls and extending at a right angle for about a single metre are
further single ashlar walls surmounted by decorative iron
railings and terminating in single ashlar piers with moulded
caps. Beam of gate inscribed "This Lychgate made of Sherwood
Forest Oak was presented to the Parish of Cotgrave by Sydney
William Herbert Third Earl Manvers A.D. 1899".


Listing NGR: SK6438135274

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
430467
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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