LYCHGATE TO CHURCH OF ST CUTHBERT
List Entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: LYCHGATE TO CHURCH OF ST CUTHBERT List entry Number: 1024985
Location
LYCHGATE TO CHURCH OF ST CUTHBERT, PURSTON LANE Grade: II
Date first listed: 11-May-1988
Details
ACKWORTH PURSTON LANE (north SE41NW side) High Ackworth 2/24 Lychgate to church of – of St. Cuthbert GV II
Lychgate. Dated 1878 on beam in roof. Coursed squared sandstone, timber superstructure with red tiled roof. Vernacular Revival style. Stone side walls, each with a timber sill carrying 3 short turned posts with tracery in the openings between them, emphatic arch- bracing to a lateral beam and to 2 longitudinal beams, the inner of which carries a brass plate inscribed in Gothic script:- THIS LYCHGATE ERECTED 1878
On these principal beams, a further set of stout turned posts supporting purlins. Between the side walls, a pair of gates with quatrefoil panels in the lower half and turned balusters in the upper, with scrolled wrought-iron spikes between them; decorated strap hinges to the top and bottom rails.
National Grid Reference: SE4405018045
This copy shows the entry on 26-May-2016 at 11:21:43.
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