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Lych Gate and Adjoining Building North of East End of All Hallows Church of Saint Kea

A Grade II Listed Building in Kea, Cornwall

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.2434 / 50°14'36"N

Longitude: -5.0724 / 5°4'20"W

OS Eastings: 181033

OS Northings: 42671

OS Grid: SW810426

Mapcode National: GBR ZD.MW6G

Mapcode Global: FRA 088D.1P8

Plus Code: 9C2P6WVH+92

Entry Name: Lych Gate and Adjoining Building North of East End of All Hallows Church of Saint Kea

Listing Date: 12 March 1986

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1328615

English Heritage Legacy ID: 63441

ID on this website: 101328615

Location: All Hallows Church, Kea, Cornwall, TR3

County: Cornwall

Civil Parish: Kea

Traditional County: Cornwall

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cornwall

Church of England Parish: St Kea

Church of England Diocese: Truro

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Description


SW 84 SW KEA KEA

2/157 Lych gate and adjoining building
north of east end of All Hallows
Church of Saint Kea

GV II


Lych gate and adjoining building. Circa 1802 possibly by James Wyatt and re-roofed
circa 1896 with circa early-mid C19 building adjoining. Killas rubble with some
dressed granite. Lych gate has steep dry Delabole slate roof with open arch braced
gables and building has hipped dry Delabole slate roof. Clay ridge tiles.
Plan of lych gate is rectangular with walkway flanked by side walls with benches.
Building is single-cell, rectangular with central entrance.
Single-storey. North front has building, left, and lych gate, right.
Building has symmetrical 2-window front with central doorway. Ledged door and wooden
shutters to windows. Mounting block below right-hand window and G P 0 letter box in
wall to right of right-hand window.
Lych gate has granite and killas piers flanking gateway with C19 wrought iron gate
with finialled bars, closer set under lock rail.
Interior of lych gate has granite grid to floor (now filled), granite coped side
benches and arch-braced roof structure.
The first church on this site of 1802 was designed by James Wyatt and the walls of
the lych gate are possibly all that survive from this period.
Included for group value.


Listing NGR: SW8103342671

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