Description

SU 35 37 LONGSTOCK LONGSTOCK (west side)

12/5 Lychgate and walls around
St Mary's churchyard

GV II

Lychgate and walls. 1880 walls, 1907 gate. Walls flint with brick bands and
dressings, reused very old stone coping, and timber lychgate on dressed stone
plinth, old plain tile roof. Wall 1.5-2m in height with brick dressings at
2-3m intervals and stone coping possibly from old church. Lychgate square plan
with wide gates at on end, 3 carved trefoiled open panels above lower panels
with carving. Gabled roof with wide eaves and iron crosses at each end and
carvings in gables. Inside longitudinally set benches with carved ends and
inscription around wallplate.

Listing NGR: SU3611937483

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26623675

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)