Lychgate at Church of St Mary the Virgin

The lychgate at the Church of St Mary the Virgin was built between 1919 and 1920, designed by Sir George Oatley. It features a timber frame resting on a limestone conglomerate plinth and has a tiled roof.

Located at the southern entrance to the churchyard, the lychgate is rectangular in shape. It has a stone plinth topped by a pegged timber frame, which supports a hipped roof covered in red tiles. The roof is adorned with a cross finial painted in red and gold. The timber frame includes deep posts with decorative gothic tracery and balustrades, creating pointed arched openings on either side. There is a pair of barred gates with decorative ironwork.

Inside, the wall plate features a carved scroll dedication, also painted in red and gold, which reads: "VITAM SALUTI PATRIAE PORT LABUERE (A.M.D.G.) IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF ‘NAMES’ WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 – 18." The roof contains scissor braced trusses, and there are timber benches on shaped stone brackets flanking the passage, along with a dressed stone paved floor.