South Lychgate to the Church of St Lawrence Including 3 Flights of Stone Steps and the Churchyard Wall to the North East
SOUTH LYCHGATE TO THE CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE INCLUDING 3 FLIGHTS OF STONE STEPS AND THE CHURCHYARD WALL TO THE NORTH EAST, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1248827
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- South Lychgate to the Church of St Lawrence Including 3 Flights of Stone Steps and the Churchyard Wall to the North East
- Statutory Address:
- SOUTH LYCHGATE TO THE CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE INCLUDING 3 FLIGHTS OF STONE STEPS AND THE CHURCHYARD WALL TO THE NORTH EAST, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1248827
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- South Lychgate to the Church of St Lawrence Including 3 Flights of Stone Steps and the Churchyard Wall to the North East
- Statutory Address 1:
- SOUTH LYCHGATE TO THE CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE INCLUDING 3 FLIGHTS OF STONE STEPS AND THE CHURCHYARD WALL TO THE NORTH EAST, HIGH STREET
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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:
- SOUTH LYCHGATE TO THE CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE INCLUDING 3 FLIGHTS OF STONE STEPS AND THE CHURCHYARD WALL TO THE NORTH EAST, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bidborough
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 56498 43162
Details
TQ 56 43 BIDBOROUGH HIGH STREET (east side)
11/6 South lychgate to the Church of St Lawrence including 3 flights of stone steps and the churchyard wall to the north east
GV II
Lychgate, stone steps and churchyard wall. Lychgate 1879 (date plaque), churchyard steps and boundary wall probably C18. Timber lychgate with a peg- tile roof, freestone steps and wall.
The lychgate is in the small square at the end of Bidborough High Street. An openwork timber structure with straight braces and bargeboards supports a gabled roof above a pair of rustic timber gates with diagonal braces. 3 flights of stone steps, 2 within the churchyard and the coped stone wall to the north east are probably of stone quarried immediately east of the lychgate.
Crucial to the setting of the church, which is sited high above the square on a small spur.
A copy of a painting, in the National Monuments Record, shows the churchyard path and steps before the lychgate was built.
National Monuments Record.
Listing NGR: TQ5649843162
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 430576
- 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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