Lychgate And Attached Walls About 30 Metres East Of Church Of St Saviour is a Grade II* listed building in the South Gloucestershire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 November 1981. A Victorian Lychgate.
Lychgate And Attached Walls About 30 Metres East Of Church Of St Saviour
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- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- South Gloucestershire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 November 1981
- Type
- Lychgate
- Period
- Victorian
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lychgate and attached walls, located about 30 metres east of the Church of St. Saviour, were built between 1844 and 1845 by William Butterfield as part of his first Anglican commission. The structure is made of coursed limestone rubble with freestone dressings and features a hipped stone roof. It has a wide pointed coffin arch with a smaller pedestrian arch to the left, separated by a low buttress between the two arches, and the side walls are battered. The original wooden gates include an open arcaded upper section.
The lychgate is set against low walls that enclose the churchyard to the north and east, with the north range measuring about 60 metres long and the east range about 120 metres long. The walls are approximately half a metre high, constructed of coursed rubble with moulded limestone copings and buttresses placed at regular intervals. Henry Russell Hitchcock noted that "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."
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