Lychgate And Attached Walls About 30 Metres East Of Church Of St Saviour

ST 68 SE WESTERLEIGH C.P. BADMINTON ROAD, Coalpit Heath (west side) 1/318 18.11.81 Lychgate and attached walls about G.V. 30 metres east of Church of St. Saviour

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Lychgate and attached walls. 1844-5, by William Butterfield, part of his first Anglican commission. Coursed limestone rubble with freestone dressings, hipped stone roof. Wide pointed coffin arch with similar smaller pedestrian arch to left, low buttress between 2 arches; battered side walls. Original wooden gates with open arcaded upper section. The lychgate rises from low walls enclosing the churchyard to north and east, north range about 60 metres long, east range about 120 metres long; walls about ½ metre high in coursed rubble with moulded limestone copings, buttresses at regular intervals. Henry Russell Hitchcock: "Only the stone lychgate, with its simple forms and curious juxtaposition of angles, suggests the pungent sort of originality Butterfield's finest work was to display later". (Sources: Verey, D. : Buildings of England Gloucestershire : The Vale and The Forest of Dean. 1970. Thompson, P. : William Butterfield. 1971. Hitchcock, H.R.: Early Victorian Architecture in Britain, vol. 1, 1954).

Listing NGR: ST6740280736