BOUNDARY WALL, LYCH GATE AND STILES TO CHURCHYARD TO CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALEN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1323151
Date first listed:: 07-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:: BOUNDARY WALL, LYCH GATE AND STILES TO CHURCHYARD TO CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALEN
Statutory Address:: BOUNDARY WALL, LYCH GATE AND STILES TO CHURCHYARD TO CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALEN

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1323151
Date first listed:: 07-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:: BOUNDARY WALL, LYCH GATE AND STILES TO CHURCHYARD TO CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALEN
Statutory Address 1:: BOUNDARY WALL, LYCH GATE AND STILES TO CHURCHYARD TO CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALEN

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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:: BOUNDARY WALL, LYCH GATE AND STILES TO CHURCHYARD TO CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALEN

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

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Forest of Dean (District Authority)
Parish:: Hewelsfield and Brockweir
National Grid Reference:: SO 56762 02093

Details

HEWELSFIELD GENERAL SO 50 SE 6/24 Boundary wall, lych gate and stiles to churchyard to church of St Mary Magdalen GV II Churchyard boundary wall with lych gate and stiles. Undated, C20 lych. Surrounding wall is rough squared drystone rubble without capping or coping, varying in height from c800mm to 1.5m, containing to east and south built-in upright sandstone slab stiles approached externally by rough stone steps; a third stile may be located to north, but here the walling overgrown with ivy at time of survey, December 1983. Main entrance, from west, through wide gabled lych gate in coursed stone with stone slate roof carried across opening on deep wood lintols to brackets on stone corbels, pair of wood gates and a small swing gate, to left of and outside main construction. This is an example of the roughly oval enclosure, probably indicating a Celtic site, and similar to that at the Church of St Andrew, Woolaston (qv). It is included principally for this historic interest.

Listing NGR: SO5676202093

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Legacy System number:: 354389
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.