Description

MARBURY CUM QUOISLEY C.P. CHURCH LANE
SJ 54 NE
2/56 Lychgate in Churchyard
of St.Michael
GV II
War Memorial Lychgate. c.1919. Yellow sandstone ashlar with timber
upper body and stone slate roof. Side walls of ashlar with ramped
walls to each side and ending in piers with octagonal caps with
moulded tops. Timber upper body with cambered tie beams to the gable
ends at front and rear supported by angle braces inscribed 1914 at
left and 1919 at right. The tie beam is inscribed "To : the : glory :
of : GOD : and : in : honoured : memory : of : those : of : this :
parish : who : gave : / Their : lives : for : their : country : and
whose : names : are : recorded : on : the : tablet : in : the :
church". King post above this and arched braces with moulded
bargeboards and bargepost. The rear has inscribed on the tie beam "Ye
who live in mid English pastures green, Remember us and think what
might have been."

Listing NGR: SJ5606145671

This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 26 January 2017.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q96097731

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