Lychgate Infront Of St Lawrence'S School is a Grade II* listed building in the Newcastle upon Tyne local planning authority area, England. A Modern Lychgate.
Lychgate Infront Of St Lawrence'S School
- WRENN ID
- crooked-flagstone-saffron
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Country
- England
- Type
- Lychgate
- Period
- Modern
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
1833/0/10266 BYKER 15-SEP-09 LYCHGATE INFRONT OF ST LAWRENCE'S SCHOOL
GV II* Lychgate, by Ralph Erskine's Arkitektkontor; site architect Vernon Gracie.Cast iron and timber slats.
Two metal uprights with ornamental brackets incorporating 6 pointed stars and scrollwork. These support a timber frame with a simple concave pitched roof of wooden slats in `Byker style'. The metalwork supporting the roof of the lychgate is said to come from the local Victorian railway station which was demolished at the time of the Byker development.
HISTORY: See under Nos 1-75 Dunn Terrace
SOURCES: Tyne and Wear Archives; Architectural Review, December 1974, pp.346-62; Mats Egelius, Ralph Erskine, Architect, Stockholm 1990, pp.148-60; M Drague Byker: Surprising the Colleagues for 35 Years - A Social History of Ralph Erskine's Arkitektkontor AB in Newcastle in E Harwood and A Powers (eds) Newcastle in Housing the C20 Nation (Twentieth Century Architecture), p155-6; P Derham pers comm July 2008.
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