Description

ST GILES ST GILES IN THE WOOD
SS 53 18 IN THE WOOD
18/247 Lychgate and adjoining east
- churchyard walls of the Church of
St Giles

GV II

Lychgate and adjoining churchyard walls. 1877. Lychgate has side sleeper walls of
local stone rubble with sandstone ashlar quoins and coping. It is timber framed
above. The side walls are an open arcade with trefoil-headed bays. The roof is
slate with bands of scallop-shaped slate with crested ridge tiles. It is gable-ended
with cusped bargeboards each end and wrought iron apex crosses. Each end are tie
beam trusses with king post and curving braces. Original timber double gates with
diagonal cast iron grilles over the middle rails and a cast iron crest with fleur-de-
lys finials. The floor and flight of 5 steps down to the lane are slate. Each side
stone rubble churchyard walls ramp down to revet the churchyard.
Source: J Clemens. Church guide (1983).

Listing NGR: SS5338118949

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26440885

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Recommended Books

• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  For the Record
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]