Description

SX 69 SE SOUTH TAWTON SOUTH TAWTON

4/223 Lych gate and stile to churchyard
of Church of St Andrew
GV II

Lych gate and stile. Probably late C19, maybe early C20. Granite ashlar; slate
roof.
Description: this is the south gateway to the churchyard and is adjoining the right
end of Church House (q.v). Tne gateway is flanked by neat granite ashlar sleeper
walls with external batters. These carry an open plain oak frame, one narrow bay
front and back each side and 4 side bays. Each has a cusped head of Decorated
tracery. Across the gateway a low Tudor arch with carved foliate spandrels and
there is a carved Latin quotation in Gothic lettering above on the head beam. Roof
is hipped each end and surmounted by a timber cross. It contains panelled double
gates and there are stone seats each side. Granite coffin stone with a cross
inscribed on the top. Floor of unpended slates neatly set in square blocks at right
angles to its neighbours. Granite ashlar steps down from the gate to the Village
Square curving outwards and becoming wider and wider, the lower ones containing tiny
pitched cobbles. To left of the lych gate a low granite ashlar wall contains a
stile made of 3 granite rung-like horizontal slabs.

Listing NGR: SX6530694458

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26399918

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Recommended Books

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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]