Churchyard Wall and Lychgate to Church of St Mark
CHURCHYARD WALL AND LYCHGATE TO CHURCH OF ST MARK, RUGBY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381516
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Churchyard Wall and Lychgate to Church of St Mark
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCHYARD WALL AND LYCHGATE TO CHURCH OF ST MARK, RUGBY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381516
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Churchyard Wall and Lychgate to Church of St Mark
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCHYARD WALL AND LYCHGATE TO CHURCH OF ST MARK, RUGBY 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:
- CHURCHYARD WALL AND LYCHGATE TO CHURCH OF ST MARK, RUGBY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Warwick (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Royal Leamington Spa
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 31047 66276
Details
ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA
SP3166SW RUGBY ROAD, New Milverton
1208-1/1/432 (North side)
Churchyard wall and lychgate to
Church of St Mark
GV II
Churchyard wall and lychgate. 1879 by George Gilbert Scott
junior with C20 lychgate. Reddish-brown brick with ashlar
copings and timber lychgate with plain-tile roof and with
cast-iron gate to east.
Wall: U-shaped on plan, approximately 1.25 metres high.
Stepped and chamfered plinth with double-chamfered copings
with upper roll-moulding, octagonal piers to entrance to west
and to angles. Lychgate: double plank gates with column
clusters supporting arched braces and tie beams, and with
gothic tracery to sides, hipped roof. Inscribed 'ENTER INTO
HIS GATES WITH THANKSGIVING' and 'In memory of Lieut. Gen. Sir
John Lindesay Keir K.G.B. churchwarden of/ this church erected
by his friends in church and the Royal Artillery and Town'.
Gate to east has decorative lancets and slender bars. Wall
abuts church to left end.
A significant streetscape feature, forming part of the setting
for Church of St Mark (qv).
Listing NGR: SP3104766276
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 481878
- 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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