Lych Gate to Church of St Mary

LYCH GATE TO CHURCH OF ST MARY

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1322765
Date first listed:
28-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:
Lych Gate to Church of St Mary
Statutory Address:
LYCH GATE TO CHURCH OF ST MARY
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1322765
Date first listed:
28-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:
Lych Gate to Church of St Mary
Statutory Address 1:
LYCH GATE TO CHURCH OF ST MARY

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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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
LYCH GATE TO CHURCH OF ST MARY

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

District:
County Durham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Hutton Magna
National Grid Reference:
NZ 12680 12474

Details

NZ 11 SW HUTTON MAGNA HUTTON MAGNA VILLAGE
(West side)

7/111 Lych gate to
Church of St. Mary

GV II


Lychgate as 1914-18 War Memorial, by Thompson of Kilburn. Oak on base of
roughly-squared stone with tooled dressings; stone slate roof. Low walls
with swept coping carry timber frame. Gabled front has Tudor arch with
carved spandrels. Single gate with shaped stiles, and arch braces in front
of rails. Open-traceried side panels beneath brattished tie-beams. Gable
with vertical studding and moulded bargeboards on corbels; cross finial.
Rear elevation similar. Sides have open-traceried panels; memorial plaque
on south. Scissor-braced roof.

Patterned cobble-and-slab paving within and in front of gate.


Listing NGR: NZ1268012474


This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 7 February 2017.

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
111700
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 7 February 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/10358
War Memorials Online, accessed 7 February 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/113136

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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