Memorial Lychgate, All Saints Church

All Saints Church, Station Road, Plumpton Green, Lewes, Lewes, BN7 3BU

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

Overview

A lychgate, 1920, in the churchyard of All Saints Church, Plumpton Green. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1451164
Date first listed:: 20-Dec-2017
List Entry Name:: Memorial Lychgate, All Saints Church
Statutory Address:: All Saints Church, Station Road, Plumpton Green, Lewes, Lewes, BN7 3BU

The Missing Pieces Project

Share your view of unique places.

Add your contribution

Location

Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.

Not all listed places are appearing on this map. We are investigating this issue and will have a fix in place as soon as we can. Updated: 13 February 2025.

There is a problem

Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions.

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.

What is the National Heritage List for England?

The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.

The list includes:

🏠 Buildings
🏰 Scheduled monuments
🌳 Parks and gardens
⚔️ Battlefields
⚓ Shipwrecks

Find out more about listing

Historic England Archive

Search over 1 million photographs and drawings from the 1850s to the present day using our images archive.

Find Photos

Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1451164
Date first listed:: 20-Dec-2017
List Entry Name:: Memorial Lychgate, All Saints Church
Statutory Address 1:: All Saints Church, Station Road, Plumpton Green, Lewes, Lewes, BN7 3BU

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

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:: All Saints Church, Station Road, Plumpton Green, Lewes, Lewes, BN7 3BU

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

County:: East Sussex
District:: Lewes (District Authority)
Parish:: Plumpton
National Grid Reference:: TQ3637316847

Summary

A lychgate, 1920, in the churchyard of All Saints Church, Plumpton Green.

Reasons for Designation

The memorial lychgate in the churchyard of All Saints Church, Plumpton Green, of 1920, is listed at Grade II, for the following principal reasons:

Historic interest:

* funded by Mrs Blackman in memory of her late husband Mr Richard James Blackman who died in October 1918, the lych-gate carries a poignant message of thanks for the enduring peace that had passed since Armistice Day.

Architectural interest:

* a well-crafted timber lych-gate, built with good quality materials, reflecting the local vernacular tradition.

Group value:

* with the adjacent Plumpton Green War Memorial (Grade II).

History

The lychgate was erected by Messrs Wells and Co of Plumpton in 1920 as a thanksgiving for peace after the Great War. It was funded by Mrs Blackman in memory of her late husband Mr Richard James Blackman who was a sidesman at All Saints Church, and died in October 1918.

Details

A lychgate, 1920, outside All Saints Church, Plumpton Green.

MATERIALS: oak, wooden shingles, stone and flint walls.

DESCRIPTION: the lychgate has a shallow hipped roof which is covered in wooden shingles and surmounted by a timber cross. The roof is supported by and oak frame with curved braces and cross-braces, which in turn stands on a timber wall plate. Supporting cross beams run around the underside of the roof and on the road side carry the carved inscription O, ENTER YE HIS GATES WITH PRAISE. The stone walls which support the timber superstructure are formed of ashlar with a carved pier at each corner and chamfered coping along their length. The main body of the walls have inset flint panels. On the roadside there is a pair of rustic timber gates supported on wrought iron strap hinges. On the north side wall there is a stone tablet which carries the carved inscription TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN HUMBLE THANKFULNESS FOR HIS GREAT MERCY IN GRANTING US PEACE NOV 11TH 1918 - JUN 28TH 1919. Above the tablet there is a small painted timber plaque which records that the lychgate was re-roofed in 1991.

This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Online. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 29 January 2018.

Sources

Websites
War Memorials Online, accessed 29 January 2018 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/1451164

Legal

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