Lychgate and Churchyard Wall at St Wystan's Church

LYCHGATE AND CHURCHYARD WALL AT ST WYSTAN'S CHURCH, WILLINGTON ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1366590
Date first listed:
24-Oct-1986
List Entry Name:
Lychgate and Churchyard Wall at St Wystan's Church
Statutory Address:
LYCHGATE AND CHURCHYARD WALL AT ST WYSTAN'S CHURCH, WILLINGTON ROAD
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1366590
Date first listed:
24-Oct-1986
List Entry Name:
Lychgate and Churchyard Wall at St Wystan's Church
Statutory Address 1:
LYCHGATE AND CHURCHYARD WALL AT ST WYSTAN'S CHURCH, WILLINGTON ROAD

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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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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 CHURCHYARD WALL AT ST WYSTAN'S CHURCH, WILLINGTON ROAD

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

County:
Derbyshire
District:
South Derbyshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Repton
National Grid Reference:
SK3032227112

Details

SK 30/3127
SK 30/3126
6/87

PARISH OF REPTON
WILLINGTON ROAD
(North Side)
Lychgate and Churchyard Wall at St Wystan's Church

GV
II

Lychgate and walls. Medieval, C19 and c1905. Random and
coursed sandstone and ashlar, lychgate with timber and plain
tile roof. Lychgate of c1905 as a memorial to Rev A Formon.
Chamfered stone plinth with timber superstructure. The sides
are divided into two bays with plain balustrade between the
principal uprights. Gabled roof with plain tiles and open
timberwork gables with moulded bressumers and carved bargeboards
to south. Pair of timber gates curving down to the centre.
Attached ashlar walls are ramped down to square piers with
gothic panels and pyramid caps. Random coursed wall with
chamfered copings, enclosing south and west sides of the
churchyard. Along the west side are four late C18 and early C19
memorial tablets to members of the Stevens family. Wall
enclosing south east side is possibly medieval, with four
buttresses to the west. Likewise the wall attached on the north
side of the church enclosing a separate rectangular enclosure.
Of coursed rubblestone with a stringcourse to the west and
chamfered copings.

Listing NGR: SK3032227112

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
82770
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.

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