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Latitude: 51.0888 / 51°5'19"N
Longitude: -4.0628 / 4°3'46"W
OS Eastings: 255626
OS Northings: 134189
OS Grid: SS556341
Mapcode National: GBR KQ.CQL5
Mapcode Global: FRA 26C7.R0W
Entry Name: Lychgate and Walls
Listing Date: 29 September 1999
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1385318
English Heritage Legacy ID: 485780
Location: Barnstaple, North Devon, Devon, EX31
County: Devon
District: North Devon
Civil Parish: Barnstaple
Built-Up Area: Barnstaple
Traditional County: Devon
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Devon
Church of England Parish: Pilton with Ashford
Church of England Diocese: Exeter
BARNSTAPLE
SS5534SE ST MARY'S CHURCHYARD, Pilton
684-1/2/325 (West side)
Lychgate and walls
GV II
Lychgate and walls. 1898 (datestone). Lychgate stone rubble
with ashlar dressings; slate roof. Rubble walls with brick
copings. Free Gothic style. Sited at the W end of the
churchyard. Archway from lane into churchyard through
lychgate, which has small rooms to N and S.
Single storey. Asymmetrical 2-window range with a central
doorway. Embattled parapet with coped merlons and embrasures,
rises in the centre; moulded string below parapet. 3-centred
central archway with double hollow-chamfered arch, flanked by
2 windows, a cusped quatrefoil with hoodmould to the right and
a lancet to the left. Small segmental-headed doorway to the
left. Date plaque of 1898 over centre of the archway. Rear
elevation, to lane, is to matching style with 2-leaf plank
door with ornamental strap hinges. Tall walls to left and
right enclose churchyard on the W side.
Listing NGR: SS5562634189
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