Lychgate at Aston Burial Ground
LYCHGATE AT ASTON BURIAL GROUND, WRENBURY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1357114
- Date first listed:
- 19-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Lychgate at Aston Burial Ground
- Statutory Address:
- LYCHGATE AT ASTON BURIAL GROUND, WRENBURY ROAD
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- Date:
- 1999-08-28
- Reference:
- IOE01/01726/21
- Rights:
- © Mr Howard W Hilton. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1357114
- Date first listed:
- 19-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Lychgate at Aston Burial Ground
- Statutory Address 1:
- LYCHGATE AT ASTON BURIAL GROUND, WRENBURY ROAD
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:
- LYCHGATE AT ASTON BURIAL GROUND, WRENBURY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Newhall
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ6105846810
Details
NEWHALL C.P. WRENBURY ROAD
SJ 64 NW
6107 4680
3/73 Lychgate at Aston Burial
- Ground
- II
War Memorial lychgate. c.1919. Timber framed on brick base with a
slate roof. Side walls with double gates between. Road front: corner
posts of cross section. The jowled tops are inscribed at left 1914,
at right 1918 supporting a cambered tie-beam which is inscribed IN
MEMORY OF THE FALLEN HEROES OF THE GREAT WAR. S-shaped braces above
and decorated bargeboards. Rear: similar, the bressumer inscribed
UNRIGHTEOUS TO FORGET and the inner face inscribed THEY DIED THAT WE
MIGHT LIVE. Also inside at left and right are wooden tablets above
the brick side walls, being that at left inscribed
BROOMHALL/SOUND/NEWHALL/SMEETON and then a list of 13 names. To the
right is a similar tablet inscribed REMEMBRANCE/DUTY/ PATRIOTISM/TRUTH
FREEDOM/FAITH/SACRIFICE/LOVE/IMMORTALITY. There are stone quoins to
the rear of the lower brick walls and a chamfered coping to the top.
Listing NGR: SJ6105846810
This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 20 July 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 422250
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 20 July 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/2170
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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