LYCH GATE, FLANKING WALLS AND TERMINAL GATEPIERS AT LEFT END APPROXIMATELY 12 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST PETER

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1253810
Date first listed:: 18-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: LYCH GATE, FLANKING WALLS AND TERMINAL GATEPIERS AT LEFT END APPROXIMATELY 12 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST PETER
Statutory Address:: LYCH GATE, FLANKING WALLS AND TERMINAL GATEPIERS AT LEFT END APPROXIMATELY 12 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST PETER

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1253810
Date first listed:: 18-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: LYCH GATE, FLANKING WALLS AND TERMINAL GATEPIERS AT LEFT END APPROXIMATELY 12 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST PETER
Statutory Address 1:: LYCH GATE, FLANKING WALLS AND TERMINAL GATEPIERS AT LEFT END APPROXIMATELY 12 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST PETER

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, FLANKING WALLS AND TERMINAL GATEPIERS AT LEFT END APPROXIMATELY 12 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST PETER

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

County:: Devon
District:: North Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Tawstock
National Grid Reference:: SS 55966 29904

Details

TAWSTOCK TAWSTOCK SS 52 NE 4/106 Lych-gate, flanking walls and - terminal gatepiers at left end approximately 12 metres south of Church of St Peter

GV II

Lych-gate, flanking walls and terminal gatepiers. Lych-gate 1867 by Sir Gilbert Scott. Flanking walls probably late Medieval origins but with considerable later rebuilding. Terminal gatepiers probably C18. Lych-gate has stone rubble walls and slate roof with gable ends supported on braced timber posts of square section. Apex cross to centre of ridge. Square latticed gates. Flanking walls of stone rubble with some dressed coping stones. Mounting block to right-hand wall. Terminal piers of ashlar, square on section with pyramid caps.

Listing NGR: SS5597129902

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Legacy System number:: 437123
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.