Lychgate and attached churchyard wall to the Church of St Stephen
Hammerwood, East Grinstead, RH19 3QE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1438586
- Date first listed:
- 03-Nov-2016
- List Entry Name:
- Lychgate and attached churchyard wall to the Church of St Stephen
- Statutory Address:
- Hammerwood, East Grinstead, RH19 3QE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1438586
- Date first listed:
- 03-Nov-2016
- List Entry Name:
- Lychgate and attached churchyard wall to the Church of St Stephen
- Statutory Address 1:
- Hammerwood, East Grinstead, RH19 3QE
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:
- Hammerwood, East Grinstead, RH19 3QE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- East Sussex
- District:
- Wealden (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Forest Row
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ4393339522
Summary
Lychgate with an attached churchyard wall. Dated 1879, by the architect E P Loftus Brock in the same Decorated Gothic style as the Church of St Stephen (Grade II*), for Oswald Augustus Smith of Hammerwood Park (Grade I).
Reasons for Designation
This 1879 Decorated Gothic style lychgate and attached churchyard wall by E P Loftus Brock is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons::
* Design interest: an inventive design in good quality well-crafted materials by a notable architect;
* Degree of survival: the structures are unaltered;
* Group value: adjoins the Church of St Stephen (Grade II*) and is of the same date, style and designed by the same architect.
History
Dated 1879. By E P Loftus Brock who also designed the Church of St Stephen (now redundant 2016).
Details
Lychgate with an attached churchyard wall. Dated 1879, by the architect E P Loftus Brock in the same Decorated Gothic style as the Church of St Stephen's Church (Grade II*), for Oswald Augustus Smith of Hammerwood Park (Grade I).
MATERIALS: lychgate of rock faced sandstone, timber-framing and tiled roof and wooden gates with iron hinges. Churchyard walls of rock-faced sandstone.
PLAN: the lychgate is square on plan and attached to a curved section of the churchyard wall on the north side which has three other straight sides.
DESCRIPTION: the lychgate has a rock-faced stone base with diagonal plain stone coping and is approached on the north side by two stone steps. Above the plinth is a timber-framed structure with open sides and a gabled tiled roof. On the north and south sides are curved braces supporting a slightly curved tie beam dated 1879 and three posts with arched decoration above. Stone piers also have curved braces attached to the corner posts. The gables have plain barge-boards with carved pendants. Attached to the base on the north side are wooden gates with carved quadrant patterns and ornamental hinges. The lychgate is attached to the low churchyard wall, of rock-faced stone with smooth stone diagonal coping, which has a curved section facing the road on the north side, straightening out towards the corners and the three other sides of the rectangle are straight.
Sources
Books and journals
Antram, N, Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Sussex East with Brighton and Hove, (2013), 415
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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