Description

TL 4614 HIGH WYCH HIGH WYCH ROAD
(west side)
High Wych Village

16/14 Wall and Gates alongside
road at Parish Church of
St James and School House
-

GV II

Wall and gates. 1860-61 presumably by G E Pritchett (1824-1912),
architect for church, school and school house. Long flint wall
with frequent red brick piers, red brick base course and
chamfered coping. Uncoursed, knapped flint. Limestone block set
in head of each pier has short cast iron finial in form of a
cusped spearhead with raised flower on each face. These support
a continuous square wrought iron rail twisted between supports,
and terminating in a 4-hooked grapnel where coping begins to ramp
up to each gate opening. Limestone projecting bottom block and
quoins at each gate opening. Timber openwork gates with heavy
cast iron hinges and cast iron capping with horizontal iron rail
over capping. Idiosyncratic use of varied materials consistent
with school, house and church. An interesting design by
Pritchett, unusual and different from original proposal shown in
perspective. (WEA II (1967) 28: Pevsner (1977) 196).

Listing NGR: TL4636814102

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26514982

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Recommended Books

• 
  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Old House Care and Repair