Gateway, including gate, gate piers and lamp overthrow, and flanking First and Second World War memorials at the entrance to the churchyard of the Church of St Andrew

Gateway, including gate, gate piers and lamp overthrow, and flanking First and Second World War memorials at the entrance to the churchyard of the Church of St Andrew

This grade II listed structure comprises a 19th-century churchyard gateway flanked by two war memorial shrines, forming a linear symmetrical composition on the north side of Market Place at the entrance to the churchyard of the Church of St Andrew (itself listed grade II*).

The central gateway consists of a pair of tall brick gate piers with a single sandstone band and pyramidal stone caps. The piers support a pair of inverse-arched, railed cast-iron gates with dog bars to mid-rail height, all finished with spearhead finials. A decorative wrought-iron lamp overthrow with a central lantern spans between the piers.

Immediately flanking the gateway on each side are identical brick shrines with stone canopies and stepped stone-coped dwarf walls surmounted by shallow cast-iron balustrades, above which are railed cast-iron gates. These shrines were built in 1950 to house existing war memorials. Stone canopies and cast-iron gates were fitted to the shrines in 1992, probably to designs by Eric Vernon Royle.

The left-hand shrine accommodates the First World War memorial, dating from around 1919. It consists of a nowy-headed slate tablet with incised ivy decoration and gilded inscriptions fixed to a stone backboard with a decorative swan neck pediment. The inscription reads: THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE / ERECTED TO THE FALLEN, BY THE SAILORS AND SOLDIERS OF KEGWORTH / 1914 - 1919, followed by the names of the fallen.

The right-hand shrine contains the Second World War memorial of 1950, comprising two slate tablets fixed to a stone backboard bearing relief carving of a bishop's mitre and fascia. Below this is a square tablet listing the 14 men who died, and underneath a rectangular tablet with the dedication: IN MEMORY OF THE MEN OF THIS PARISH WHO / GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR / 1939 - 1945.

The shrines are terminated by contemporary wall piers with flat caps that delineate the composition from the adjoining churchyard walls.

The listing does not include the churchyard walls, churchyard steps, or their flanking retaining walls and handrails immediately to the sides of the war memorial shrine wall piers.