Lych Gate And Coffin Rest At North East Entrance To Churchyard, Church Of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1985. Lych gate.

Lych Gate And Coffin Rest At North East Entrance To Churchyard, Church Of St Mary

WRENN ID
lunar-merlon-swallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Country
England
Date first listed
17 May 1985
Type
Lych gate
Source
Historic England listing

Description

ST22NW CHEDDON FITZPAINE CP

CHEDDON FITZPAINE VILLAGE

5/43 Lych gate and coffin rest at North-East entrance to churchyard, Church of St Mary

GV II

Lych gate and coffin rest. Circa 1920. Flat bedded local stone. buttresses, plain clay tile roof. Single storey, one bay; semi-circular headed archway with voussoirs, barrel vault, slab on entrance front incised with celtic cross, Wooden gate on entrance front with wrought iron decorative cresting. Interior: coffin rest, flat bedded local stone, incised slab with a cross of fleur-de-lys. Dedicated as a memorial to the dead of the 1914-18 war, inscribed tablet on interior East wall. In the style of Sir Edwin Lutyen's work at Hestercoabe (qv) but not atributable to him.

Listing NGR: ST2431427609

This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 24 July 2017.

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