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Lych Gate And Pedestrian Gate To The Church Of St John The Baptist 383785

• geometry: MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.569988 50.436881,-3.570025 50.436878,-3.570018...
• entry-date: 1993-10-25
• listed-building: 1298315
• name: Lych Gate And Pedestrian Gate To The Church Of St John The Baptist
• notes: Lych gate. Late C19. Lychgate constructed of local grey limestone with red sandstone dressings; gableted slate roof of ornamentally-cut slates; crested ridge tiles. Pedestrian gateway alongside built of local grey limestone with Ham Hill dressings. Timber gates. PLAN: Lychgate at NW corner of the churchyard with pedestrian gate alongside to the S. EXTERIOR: Lychgate consists of 2 large buttress-like piers with coped set-offs and gabled tops. Upward-curving timber brackets spring from the set-offs to support the roof. Common rafter roof with diagonal boarding behind the rafters. Crested ridge tiles include terracotta cross in the centre and foliage crests to left and right. Pair of simple openwork timber gates with trefoil-headed panels above the middle rail filled with iron stanchions and crosspieces. The pedestrian gateway alongside is ogival on plan and attached to a short section of contemporary walling. The wall has a Ham Hill stone plinth and steep Ham Hill coping and the two ends terminate in piers, one retaining a crocketed Ham Hill stone finial. Simple openwork gate with ogival-headed panels above the middle rail. Listing NGR: SX8860260847
• reference: 383785
• start-date: 1993-10-25