LYCH GATE WITH IRON GATES, KINGSTON CEMETERY

LYCH GATE WITH IRON GATES, KINGSTON CEMETERY, ST MARYS ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1387194
Date first listed:: 18-Mar-1999
List Entry Name:: LYCH GATE WITH IRON GATES, KINGSTON CEMETERY
Statutory Address:: LYCH GATE WITH IRON GATES, KINGSTON CEMETERY, ST MARYS ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1387194
Date first listed:: 18-Mar-1999
List Entry Name:: LYCH GATE WITH IRON GATES, KINGSTON CEMETERY
Statutory Address 1:: LYCH GATE WITH IRON GATES, KINGSTON CEMETERY, ST MARYS ROAD

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: LYCH GATE WITH IRON GATES, KINGSTON CEMETERY, ST MARYS ROAD

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

District:: City of Portsmouth (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SU 65749 00812

Details

PORTSMOUTH

SU6500 ST MARY'S ROAD, Kingston 774-1/10/259 (North side) Lych gate with iron gates, Kingston Cemetery

GV II

Lych gate with iron gates. c1858. Probably by George Rake. Flint, grey Portland stone rubble, stone dressings. Slate roof. At centre is a large vehicular entrance with stone pointed arch and moulded jambs with flanking round attached columns with the round moulding continuing over arch. Behind are 2 shorter paired columns at each side supported on stone corbels. Stone coped facing gable. Stepped clasping buttresses with rusticated stone quoins each terminating with crocketed pinnacle. Ornately patterned 2-leaf wrought-iron gate, each panel with 18 small square pierced trefoil panels with patterned ironwork with spikes to top panel. Flanking recessed pedestrian entries each with pointed stone arch and dripstone. Facing gable with small pediment over each opening. Rusticated stone quoins with short flanking stepped buttresses. Wrought-iron gate to each opening, smaller but similar patterned to centre gates. Rear face of entrance is similar to front except in lieu of attached columns to centre opening jambs are plain splayed stone. Centre porch has timber roof trusses with diagonal boarding and flanking pedestrian porches have low stone barrel vaults.

Listing NGR: SU6600900822

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Legacy System number:: 475116
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.