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Latitude: 51.1663 / 51°9'58"N
Longitude: 0.237 / 0°14'13"E
OS Eastings: 556498
OS Northings: 143162
OS Grid: TQ564431
Mapcode National: GBR MPC.SW9
Mapcode Global: VHHQ6.2Y49
Plus Code: 9F32568P+GQ
Entry Name: South Lychgate to the Church of St Lawrence Including 3 Flights of Stone Steps and the Churchyard Wall to the North East
Listing Date: 24 August 1990
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1248827
English Heritage Legacy ID: 430576
ID on this website: 101248827
Location: St Lawrence's Church, Bidborough, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN3
County: Kent
District: Tunbridge Wells
Civil Parish: Bidborough
Built-Up Area: Southborough
Traditional County: Kent
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Kent
Church of England Parish: St Peter with Christ Church and St Matthew Southborough and St Lawrence Bidborough
Church of England Diocese: Rochester
Tagged with: Lychgate
TQ 56 43 BIDBOROUGH HIGH STREET (east side)
11/6 South lychgate to the Church
of St Lawrence including
3 flights of stone steps and
the churchyard wall to the
north east
GV II
Lychgate, stone steps and churchyard wall. Lychgate 1879 (date plaque),
churchyard steps and boundary wall probably C18. Timber lychgate with a peg-
tile roof, freestone steps and wall.
The lychgate is in the small square at the end of Bidborough High Street. An
openwork timber structure with straight braces and bargeboards supports a
gabled roof above a pair of rustic timber gates with diagonal braces. 3
flights of stone steps, 2 within the churchyard and the coped stone wall to
the north east are probably of stone quarried immediately east of the
lychgate.
Crucial to the setting of the church, which is sited high above the square on
a small spur.
A copy of a painting, in the National Monuments Record, shows the churchyard
path and steps before the lychgate was built.
National Monuments Record.
Listing NGR: TQ5649843162
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