Lychgate and Quadrant Walls, About 40 Metres South Off Church of St Mary

LYCHGATE AND QUADRANT WALLS, ABOUT 40 METRES SOUTH OFF CHURCH OF ST MARY, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1320048
Date first listed:
22-Jun-1989
List Entry Name:
Lychgate and Quadrant Walls, About 40 Metres South Off Church of St Mary
Statutory Address:
LYCHGATE AND QUADRANT WALLS, ABOUT 40 METRES SOUTH OFF CHURCH OF ST MARY, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1320048
Date first listed:
22-Jun-1989
List Entry Name:
Lychgate and Quadrant Walls, About 40 Metres South Off Church of St Mary
Statutory Address 1:
LYCHGATE AND QUADRANT WALLS, ABOUT 40 METRES SOUTH OFF CHURCH OF ST MARY, HIGH STREET

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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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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 QUADRANT WALLS, ABOUT 40 METRES SOUTH OFF CHURCH OF ST MARY, 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:
Frittenden
National Grid Reference:
TQ 81332 40900

Details

FRITTENDEN HIGH STREET TQ 8040-8140 (north west side) 14/58 Lychgate and quadrant walls, about 40 metres south off Church of St Mary GV II Lychgate with quadrant walls attached. Circa 1916, as a memorial to Captain R E Inglis. timber framed with plain tiled roof with lower walls of Wealden sand- stone. Two bay side frame to lychgate with chamfered and braced main posts supporting embattled tie-beams, with enriched and cusped four-centred arched knee braces. Queen post roof with moulded bargeboards and swept-out eaves. Foliate cross over southern gable. Central tie beam inscribed to Captain Rupert Edward Inglis, D.1916 at the Somme. Simple half-panelled side pieces with open upper panels with cusped and pendanted tracery. Cusped double carriage gates, with smaller pedestrian gate hung from adjacent wall pier. The quadrant walls extend southwards from the pinnacled wall piers of the (mid C19 churchyard wall (by R C Hussey) between which is the lychgate. The walls are about 4 feet in height, extending some 25 yards in ...... curves and enclosing a paved court- yard. High quality early C20 design and craftmanship in an interesting mid C19 group of Church and houses by R C Hussey (c.1846-8).

Listing NGR: TQ8133240900

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Legacy System number:
169408
Legacy System:
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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.

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