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Latitude: 51.7627 / 51°45'45"N
Longitude: -0.1037 / 0°6'13"W
OS Eastings: 530960
OS Northings: 208813
OS Grid: TL309088
Mapcode National: GBR KC2.JKV
Mapcode Global: VHGPN.5Y0L
Plus Code: 9C3XQV7W+3G
Entry Name: Lych Gate, Bridge and Retaining Wall to Churchyard at Church of St Mary
Listing Date: 20 April 1988
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1176674
English Heritage Legacy ID: 160626
ID on this website: 101176674
Location: St Mary's Church, Bayford, East Hertfordshire, SG13
County: Hertfordshire
District: East Hertfordshire
Civil Parish: Bayford
Traditional County: Hertfordshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Hertfordshire
Church of England Parish: Bayford
Church of England Diocese: St.Albans
Tagged with: Lychgate
TL 3008 BAYFORD CHURCH LANE
(West side)
5/18 Lych Gate, Bridge and
- Retaining Wall to churchyard
at Church of St. Mary
GV II
Lych gate, bridge and retaining wall. 1870-71 by Henry Woodyer as
outworks of St. Mary's Church he built for William Robert Baker of
Bayfordbury (q.v.). Oak frame, Kentish ragstone bridge and sidewalls,
wall of alternate bands of Kentish ragstone and red brick, hipped and
gabletted roof of red tile with wrought iron foliate cross on top. A
small square lych gate raised on the low parapets of the bridge over the
ha ha with banded retaining wall which was constructed as the new
boundary to the churchyard extended to SE and SW when the new church was
built to the S of the former church. 4 posts on sill beams N-S with
convex quadrant bracing to sill and arched bracing to wallplates N-S and
to 2 tie-beams E-W extending beyond wallplates with support from outer
braces from posts. Single-bay crown-post roof with square posts and
axial curved braces. Pierced boarding infill of gablets similar to
gabled vents in church roof. Ragstone infill wall between side-posts and
simple double gate. Special brick-on-edge red coping to retaining wall.
Pointed arch to watercourse under bridge.
Listing NGR: TL3096008813
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