Listed Building: LYCH GATE TO ST MARKS CHURCH (1375858)

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Grade II
Authority Department for Culture Media and Sport
Volume/Map/Item 1932-1, 7, 180
Date assigned 23 July 1998
Date last amended

Description

CHESTER CITY (EM) SJ3865 HOUGH GREEN 1932-1/7/180 (South side) Lych gate to St Mark's Church GV II Lych gate. c1920. At the expense of Mr & Mrs Dent of Curzon House, Chester in celebration of the safe return of their sons Captain RWF Dent and Lieut HA Dent from the Great War 1914-1919. Squared snecked red sandstone with ashlar dressings; oak framing; stone-slate roof. Pair of panelled oak gates on wrought-iron hinges. Wall-plates, that to left (north-east) inscribed. Outer gable has camber-beam on shaped brackets and 2 quatrefoil-braced panels. Each side of the gate-chamber has 4 intermediate posts and tension braces; the inner gable has king post expressed as the Cross. Listing NGR: SJ3893165078

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Sources (1)

  • Digital Archive: English Heritage. 2005. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. 469837. [Mapped features: #5156 469837; #10459 469837]

Map

Location

Grid reference Centred SJ 3893 6507 (4m by 4m) (2 map features)
Map sheet SJ36NE
Civil Parish CHESTER NON PARISH AREA, CHESTER, CHESHIRE WEST AND CHESTER

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Record last edited

Aug 13 2012 5:29PM