Lychgate 20m north of the Church of St Peter on the Green

Lychgate 20m north of the Church of St Peter on the Green, Froxfield Green, Froxfield

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1418471
Date first listed:: 17-Mar-2005
List Entry Name:: Lychgate 20m north of the Church of St Peter on the Green
Statutory Address:: Lychgate 20m north of the Church of St Peter on the Green, Froxfield Green, Froxfield

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1418471
Date first listed:: 17-Mar-2005
List Entry Name:: Lychgate 20m north of the Church of St Peter on the Green
Statutory Address 1:: Lychgate 20m north of the Church of St Peter on the Green, Froxfield Green, Froxfield

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: Lychgate 20m north of the Church of St Peter on the Green, Froxfield Green, Froxfield

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

County:: Hampshire
District:: East Hampshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Froxfield and Privett
National Park:: SOUTH DOWNS
National Grid Reference:: SU7039625561

Details

FROXFIELD, FROXFIELD GREEN, Lychgate 20m north of the Church of St Peter on the Green

GV II

Lychgate. Dated 1906. Perpendicular style. Open work timber frame structure on a low plinth wall of flint and dressed stone ashlar. Cruciform tiled roof with steeply pitched gables to north (towards road), south, east and west. Two bays. Arched tie beams to north and south elevations support a decorative queen post arcade with three arched infill panels below collar. Grid-like framing to east and west elevations with horizontal collar, tie beam and lower member with two arched infill panels below collar. Plain bargeboards to the four gables. Wooden double gates to the north elevation.

An inscription on the collar facing The Green reads, '1906', and on the tie beam below, 'This is Gods Acre'. Within the lychgate, on the inside of the west gable, is a metal plaque with an inscription which reads, 'In memory of two friends of Monkton near Dublin, Sydney, new South Wales, Xmas Day 1888'.

A well executed, unaltered, timber frame Edwardian lychgate, which has group value with the Grade II church and a number of other churchyard monuments.

Sources

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Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.