Lych Gate And Attached Churchyard Wall To South Of Church Of St Mary Magdalene

The lych gate and attached churchyard wall to the south of the Church of St. Mary Magdalene were built in 1889. The lych gate is constructed from tooled-and-margined stone with ashlar dressings, featuring an oak upper frame and a red-tiled roof. It has a square stone structure with two small double-chamfered Tudor-arched lights on either side. Sloped buttresses frame the central two-centred timber arches, which rest on moulded stone corbels and include cusped panels with an ihc monogram in the spandrels. The tie-beam is brattished and features an inscription and panel tracery above, all under trefoiled ogee bargeboards. The eaves are swept, and there is a wrought-iron cross fleury on the ridge. The double gates have fleur-de-lys standards and elaborate finials, while the collar rafter roof displays the date and initials J.P.0.M. (Colonel John Philip Osbaldeston-Mitford) on the rafter feet.

The wall sweeps in on either side of the gate and has steeply-chamfered coping, with railings that match the design of the gate. At each end of the wall, there are tall gabled piers, along with a similar short right return.