Lych Gate Immediately South West of Church of Holy Trinity
LYCH GATE IMMEDIATELY SOUTH WEST OF CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347185
- Date first listed:
- 18-Nov-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Lych Gate Immediately South West of Church of Holy Trinity
- Statutory Address:
- LYCH GATE IMMEDIATELY SOUTH WEST OF CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347185
- Date first listed:
- 18-Nov-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Lych Gate Immediately South West of Church of Holy Trinity
- Statutory Address 1:
- LYCH GATE IMMEDIATELY SOUTH WEST OF CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY
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.
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:
- LYCH GATE IMMEDIATELY SOUTH WEST OF CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- St. Albans (District Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Stephen
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 15187 03367
Details
The following building shall be added to the list:-
TL 1503 SW ST ALBANS FROGMORE
20/10002 Lych gate immediately SW of Church of Holy Trinity
GV II
Lych gate. Dated 1891. Timber framed on flint and brick plinth with stone and brick coping. Gable-ended tile roof with bands of fishscale tiles and decorative ridge tiles. Ornately cusped bargeboards. The collar rafter roof has brattished and inscribed tie-beams in end gables, the outer gable with open close-studding and cross at centre, the inner gable with king-post and diagonal struts. The sides each have four cusped lights. The lychgate is situated in front of the west end of Sir G G Scott's 1842 Romanesque church of Holy Trinity (qv). It was erected in memory of Mr and Mrs Harry Oliver, by their children. Source: Kelly's Directory 1929.
Listing NGR: TL1518703367
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 163535
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Kelly's Directory in Kelly's Directory, (1929)
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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