Lychgate Approximately 25 Metres To North Of Church Of St George is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1968. Lychgate.
Lychgate Approximately 25 Metres To North Of Church Of St George
- WRENN ID
- pale-trefoil-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 March 1968
- Type
- Lychgate
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SO 3080-3180 CLUN C.P. CHURCH STREET (South side)
15/83 Lychgate approximately 25 21.3.68 metres to North of Church of St. George [formerly listed as Churchyard porch (Church of St George)]
GV II
Lychgate. 1723 (churchwardens' accounts), dismantled 1841, re- erected in circa 1881 and restored 1956. Timber framed on low coursed limestone rubble walls; graded stone slate roof, gabled on all sides with circa 1881 moulded barge boards and finials. Square plan. Framing: close studded sides with central rail, blocked below and open above; large curved arch - braces to entrances at North and South; trusses in gables with vertical struts to collar and quatre- foiled panels, Central pair of circa 1881 wooden gates. After its dismantling in 1841 it was re-erected at the gateway to Handcauseway (Cf . Cranage) before being returned to its original location in about 1881. Despite restoration in 1956, it is included as a faithful copy and for group value. Cranage, Vol. 5, P.442-4; Brief notes on St, George's Church, Clun; N.M.R.
Listing NGR: SO3003880617
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