Lych Gate and Attached Churchyard Wall to South of Church of St Mary Magdalene
LYCH GATE AND ATTACHED CHURCHYARD WALL TO SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1370757
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Lych Gate and Attached Churchyard Wall to South of Church of St Mary Magdalene
- Statutory Address:
- LYCH GATE AND ATTACHED CHURCHYARD WALL TO SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1370757
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Lych Gate and Attached Churchyard Wall to South of Church of St Mary Magdalene
- Statutory Address 1:
- LYCH GATE AND ATTACHED CHURCHYARD WALL TO SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE
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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.
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 AND ATTACHED CHURCHYARD WALL TO SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Mitford
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 16904 85564
Details
MITFORD MITFORD NZ 1685 9/22 Lych gate and attached churchyard wall to south of Church of St. Mary Magdalene GV II
Lych gate with churchyard wall and railings; lych gate dated 1889. Tooled-and margined stone with ashlar dressings; oak upper frame and red-tiled roof. Square stone structure with 2 small double-chamfered Tudor-arched lights at either side and sloped buttresses framing central 2-centred timber arches on moulded stone corbels, with cusped panels and ihc monogram in spandrels. Brattished tie-beam with inscription and panel tracery above under trefoiled ogee bargeboards. Swept eaves, wrought-iron cross fleury on ridge. Double gates with fleur-de-lys standards and more elaborate finials. Collar rafter roof with date and initials J.P.0.M. (Colonel John Philip Osbaldeston-Mitford) on rafter feet.
Wall, swept in on either side of gate, has steeply-chamfered coping and railings of similar design to gate. At each end a tall gabled pier; similar short right return.
Listing NGR: NZ1690585563
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 238937
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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