South Lychgate To The Church Of St Lawrence Including 3 Flights Of Stone Steps And The Churchyard Wall To The North East

TQ 56 43 BIDBOROUGH HIGH STREET (east side)

11/6 South lychgate to the Church of St Lawrence including 3 flights of stone steps and the churchyard wall to the north east

GV II

Lychgate, stone steps and churchyard wall. Lychgate 1879 (date plaque), churchyard steps and boundary wall probably C18. Timber lychgate with a peg- tile roof, freestone steps and wall.

The lychgate is in the small square at the end of Bidborough High Street. An openwork timber structure with straight braces and bargeboards supports a gabled roof above a pair of rustic timber gates with diagonal braces. 3 flights of stone steps, 2 within the churchyard and the coped stone wall to the north east are probably of stone quarried immediately east of the lychgate.

Crucial to the setting of the church, which is sited high above the square on a small spur.

A copy of a painting, in the National Monuments Record, shows the churchyard path and steps before the lychgate was built.

National Monuments Record.

Listing NGR: TQ5649843162