Lychgate and Walls
LYCHGATE AND WALLS, ST MARYS CHURCHYARD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385318
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Lychgate and Walls
- Statutory Address:
- LYCHGATE AND WALLS, ST MARYS CHURCHYARD
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/16138/33
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385318
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Lychgate and Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- LYCHGATE AND WALLS, ST MARYS CHURCHYARD
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 AND WALLS, ST MARYS CHURCHYARD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Barnstaple
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 55626 34189
Details
BARNSTAPLE
SS5534SE ST MARY'S CHURCHYARD, Pilton
684-1/2/325 (West side)
Lychgate and walls
GV II
Lychgate and walls. 1898 (datestone). Lychgate stone rubble
with ashlar dressings; slate roof. Rubble walls with brick
copings. Free Gothic style. Sited at the W end of the
churchyard. Archway from lane into churchyard through
lychgate, which has small rooms to N and S.
Single storey. Asymmetrical 2-window range with a central
doorway. Embattled parapet with coped merlons and embrasures,
rises in the centre; moulded string below parapet. 3-centred
central archway with double hollow-chamfered arch, flanked by
2 windows, a cusped quatrefoil with hoodmould to the right and
a lancet to the left. Small segmental-headed doorway to the
left. Date plaque of 1898 over centre of the archway. Rear
elevation, to lane, is to matching style with 2-leaf plank
door with ornamental strap hinges. Tall walls to left and
right enclose churchyard on the W side.
Listing NGR: SS5562634189
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485780
- 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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