Description

UPOTTERY UPOTTERY ST 20 NW 7/141 Lych gate to churchyard of Church - of St Mary GV II Lych gate. Circa 1875. Local stone and flint rubble with Hamstone ashlar dressings; red tile roof with crested ridgetiles. The lych gate has stone walls each side with weathered offsets each end. Also each end are pairs of corbels which support the moulded oak wall plate. The tall and steeply pitched roof is supported by outer arch-braced truss. These are closed above collar level with studs and panels, the panels carved with Perpendicular tracery. The roof is surmounted by wrought iron cross. There are oak double gates. The outer stiles have fleur-de-lys finials and the inner stiles have scrolled finials. The panel above the lock bar rail has a diagonal brace with cusped arcades above and below. Below the lock bar rail is a herringbone arrangement of diagonal boards. The lych gate is recessed from the road. Either side low stone rubble quadrant walls curve outwards to square-section terminal piers with Hamstone pyramid caps.

Listing NGR: ST2017207551

External Links

• Wikidata Q26618419

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Recommended Books

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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)