Lychgate Infront of St Lawrence's School
LYCHGATE INFRONT OF ST LAWRENCE'S SCHOOL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1393440
- Date first listed:
- 15-Sept-2009
- List Entry Name:
- Lychgate Infront of St Lawrence's School
- Statutory Address:
- LYCHGATE INFRONT OF ST LAWRENCE'S SCHOOL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1393440
- Date first listed:
- 15-Sept-2009
- List Entry Name:
- Lychgate Infront of St Lawrence's School
- Statutory Address 1:
- LYCHGATE INFRONT OF ST LAWRENCE'S SCHOOL
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 INFRONT OF ST LAWRENCE'S SCHOOL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Newcastle upon Tyne (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 27336 64513
Reasons for Designation
The Lychgate in front of St Lawrence's School is designated for the following principal reasons: * It forms an integral part of the original design concept * It has strong group value with the surrounding estate * It is a striking feature designed in the distinctive `Byker Style'
Details
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
1833/0/10266 BYKER 15-SEP-09 LYCHGATE INFRONT OF ST LAWRENCE'S SCHOOL
GV II* Lychgate, by Ralph Erskine's Arkitektkontor; site architect Vernon Gracie.Cast iron and timber slats.
Two metal uprights with ornamental brackets incorporating 6 pointed stars and scrollwork. These support a timber frame with a simple concave pitched roof of wooden slats in `Byker style'. The metalwork supporting the roof of the lychgate is said to come from the local Victorian railway station which was demolished at the time of the Byker development.
HISTORY: See under Nos 1-75 Dunn Terrace
SOURCES: Tyne and Wear Archives; Architectural Review, December 1974, pp.346-62; Mats Egelius, Ralph Erskine, Architect, Stockholm 1990, pp.148-60; M Drague Byker: Surprising the Colleagues for 35 Years - A Social History of Ralph Erskine's Arkitektkontor AB in Newcastle in E Harwood and A Powers (eds) Newcastle in Housing the C20 Nation (Twentieth Century Architecture), p155-6; P Derham pers comm July 2008.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 505579
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Egelius, M, Ralph Erskine Architect, (1990), 148-160
Architectural Review in December, (1974), 346-362
Drague, M, Newcastle in Housing the C20 Nation in A Social History of Ralph Erskines Arkitektkontor AB in Newcastle, (2008), 155-156
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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