Church Lychgate is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 January 1967. A Medieval Church lychgate.
Church Lychgate
- WRENN ID
- last-footing-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 January 1967
- Type
- Church lychgate
- Period
- Medieval
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SE 9683 WYKEHAM A 170 (north side)
14/116 Church Lychgate
18.1.67 GV II
Tower of the former St Helen's Chapel of Ease; now lychgate and bell tower. C14; restored in 1853-54, when the spire was added by William Butterfield. Sandstone rubble with restoration, including buttresses, in sandstone ashlar; stone flag spire and slate roof to staircase extension. 3-stage tower with offset diagonal buttresses and single-stage staircase extension to north. Lowest stage pierced on both sides by a double-chamfered pointed arch on chamfered responds, with bar stops to the west and broach stops to the east. Single rectangular light to second stage, and 2-light louvred bell openings with trefoil tracery beneath pointed head-stopped hood-mould to third stage. Chamfered string courses to second and third stages. Octagonal broach spire with lucarnes and weather-vane. Pent roof to staircase extension. N Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire, The North Riding, 1966; p 404.
Listing NGR: SE9645283366
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