Chadwick Lychgate at entrance to Sunnyhurst Wood

Lychgate, 1903; dressed sandstone and timber.

DESCRIPTION: forming one of the original entrances to the wood, the lychgate has a dressed stone base with moulded coping supporting the timber super structure. Each side has four open bays with carved arched braces supporting the pitched roof of tile and overhanging bracketed eaves. Both gables have mock timbered panels, carved arched braces and decorative barge boards with a carved ogee-arch at their apex. The east gable is also carved with the words 'Sunnyhurst Wood' in a gothick script flanked by carved floral motifs. It is fitted with double five-bar timber gates.