The cemetery lych gate and adjoining cemetery walls is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 October 1987. Lych gate, cemetery wall.

The cemetery lych gate and adjoining cemetery walls

WRENN ID
grim-floor-sparrow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Country
England
Date first listed
9 October 1987
Type
Lych gate, cemetery wall
OS grid reference
SW 515 300
Coordinates
50.11845, -5.47686
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The cemetery lych gate and adjoining cemetery walls were built in 1889 as a memorial to Sir Edward St Aubyn, his wife Emma, and their seven children. The structure is made of granite ashlar with granite dressings and features a corbelled granite roof with gable ends, along with iron gates.

The lych gate has a square plan with doorways on the north and south sides, a central coffin rest, and side benches. It is designed in a Gothic style and includes corner buttresses. The cemetery walls, which are set back to the left and run at right angles to the southwest corner, enclose a rectangular cemetery.

The exterior of the lych gate features similar gable ends on the north and south. The north entrance gable end has a double-chamfered two-centred arch above chamfered responds, and above the doorway is an arched niche that holds a statue. Hoodmoulds are present, and the gable coping is topped with a Celtic cross. Each gable is flanked by integral weathered buttresses, with additional projecting weathered buttresses featuring cusped gablets on either side of the doorway. In front of the lych gate is a cobbled forecourt bordered with dressed granite. The horizontally-coursed granite ashlar cemetery walls have roll-moulded granite copings and step up to follow the slope of the land.

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