Kibworth Cemetery lych gate and iron gate

An enclosed lych gate of 1894, attributed to Edward Mason.

MATERIALS: brick base with stone coping to lower courses, timber framed superstructure with rendered panels and timber doors. Stained glass windows. Clay tile roof covering, iron gates.

PLAN: rectangular, orientated with the short ends bearing the double doors facing north-east into the cemetery and south-west to the Harborough Road.

EXTERIOR: the lych gate is a single-storey structure under a steeply pitched clay tile roof which flares out at the eaves forming a deep overhang. The barge boards to the gables are cusped with carved foliage in their spandrels with a post supporting a finial rising through the apex. A brick skirt of 10 courses surrounds the building, the bottom course is in blue brick, the rest red. A course of chamfered stone coping tops the brickwork and supports a timber framed superstructure.

The gable ends are both of the same design and hold the arched double doors; the south-west gable faces Harborough Road, with the north-east gable allowing entry to the cemetery. These pairs of doors are panelled timber and set in a stepped rectangular architrave with the spandrels between it and the arch of the door decorated with carved foliage. Above the doors the gable ends are set with six timber studs with rendered panels between them. Either side of the doors is a single ogee-headed panel.

The side elevations above the brick skirt consist of timber studs inset with four rendered panels with ogee-headed mouldings, these panels alternate with three stained glass windows, the central of which is a double window. The windows have floral designs within cusped tracery.

INTERIOR: narrow wood-strip panelled walls with herringbone brick floor. The sides are lined with benches divided by wooden columns with stylised capitals from which spring arched roof braces.

SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: three stone steps lead up from Harborough Road to an iron gate of simple post and rail design, decorated with scroll work and finials. It is in line with the doors to the lych gate and set within a modern metal fence.