Lychgate and churchyard wall to north and east of Church of St Mary

Churchyard wall, late C19, and lychgate, 1949, designed by John T L Coope.

MATERIALS: the churchyard wall is in buff sandstone and the Lychgate has buff sandstone from Gott Park, red sandstone from Coventry Cathedral, Jurassic limestone from St Martin-le-Grand Church, York, buff sandstone from Leeds Museum, Portland stone from St. Paul’s Cathedral, Millstone Grit from Leeds Town Hall and Magnesian Limestone from the Houses of Parliament, together with a teak frame and a slate roof.

PLAN: the churchyard wall runs around the northern and eastern sides of the churchyard. The lychgate, at the western end of the wall, is composed of two parallel walls linked by a pitched roof, closed at either end by gates.

EXTERIOR: the churchyard wall is a low wall in coursed sandstone with rounded coping, stepped on the northern side. There is a pair of gate piers with gabled heads to the east of the church, and another similar pair at the southern extent of the wall. The lychgate has a low sandstone wall to either side with rounded coping stones. Above and framing the central opening is timber framing in teak wood, rising to a gable over the opening. There are wrought iron panels between the timber framing and a carved wooden cross is incorporated into the open framing above the entrance. The steeply pitched roof is slated. There are wrought iron gates at each end, and an inscription in the timber beam over the outer gates reads ‘their name liveth for evermore’, with the dates 1914-1918 and 1939-1945 below. On each side above the stone wall is a panel containing individual stones from the various bomb-damaged buildings.

INTERIOR: the interior of the lychgate wall is painted white, and above on each side is a perspex-covered framed metal plaque bearing the names of the fallen from the First World War (81 names) and the Second World War (47 names).

This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 1 February 2017.