Lychgate and flank walls, West Dean Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 March 2014. Memorial.
Lychgate and flank walls, West Dean Cemetery
- WRENN ID
- hidden-lantern-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 March 2014
- Type
- Memorial
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Memorial in the form of a lychgate, screen wall, seats and sculpted commemorative panel, erected c1931 in memory of Evelyn James, who died, 13th May 1929. Designed by the architect Walter H Godfrey.
DESCRIPTION: braced oak frame beneath a half-hipped roof structure, clad in plain tiles. Set on a shallow stone plinth, installed 2011-12, within a flagged stone threshold. The frame is inscribed:
MILLICENT ALEXANDRA SILVIA AUDREY AND EDWARD CHILDREN OF / EVELYN JAMES HAVE BUILT THIS RESTING PLACE IN HER MEMORY
Pair of oak gates with diagonally set slats and iron fixtures and fittings.
To each side are stone splay walls with integral stone seats. Set into the western, cemetery, face of the northern splay is a carved commemorative stone panel bearing the inscription:
MILLICENT. ALEXANDRA. SILVIA / AUDREY & EDWARD. CHILDREN OF / EVELYN JAMES. HAVE BUILT THIS / RESTING PLACE IN HER MEMORY
This is flanked at each end by a bas-relief, inward-facing, winged figure in draped clothing, each with one hand raised. The artist is not known.
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