Lychgate At the entry to the churchyard is a large, ornate lychgate, which was designed by Grayson and Ould, and is contemporary with the church. It consists of a timber canopy on a stone base. The roof is shingled, and the bressumers and bargeboards are finely carved. On top of the lychgate is a cross.
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The boundary wall and lychgate were added in the 1850s.
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The churchyard is accessed via a lychgate from the town.
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The lychgate is also the village war memorial dating from 1928.
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It is the only lychgate in Shropshire with a coffin stone.
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The lychgate of St Luke's, viewed from the churchyard At the entrance to the churchyard is a lychgate dating from about 1870. It is constructed in sandstone, has a tile roof, and is in Decorated style. It is approached by six steps from the east, and at the eastern entrance is a pair of wooden gates. Inside the lychgate are stone benches.
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Lychgate, 2014 According to Alex Francis, his mother, Angela Francis, erected the lychgate for her husband Arthur Francis and the elaborate barge boards were carved by her friends. A small bronze plaque reads "ERECTED BY ANGELA FRANCIS 1902". The lychgate has a gable roof that was originally covered with timber shingles. These were replaced with concrete tiles in 1962, but have again been replaced with timber shingles.
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The nearby medieval church and its 20th century lychgate are also listed buildings.
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The lychgate of 1881 was designed by Frank Miles, son of Robert Miles, rector.
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The lychgate The churchyard contains many traditional headstones in the vernacular material, two table tombs, and has a goodly population of box trees and yews. Access is via a lychgate which was moved from Warboys to mark the Hemingford Millennium in 1974.
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Most prominent is the Lychgate at the old entrance to the church. In colonial times through to the mid 1900s, the Lychgate was the place where the unclean would stop and wait until the priest arrived to bless them. In the Judeo–Christian tradition a dead body was considered unclean or unholy. So the pall bearers would carry the body to the Lychgate there priest would greet the pall bearers and mourners.
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St Baglan's church, lychgate Adjacent to the church is a field in which Baglan's well was sited. This was a structure containing seats, and it was said to have healing powers. It was filled in during the 19th century. The church is now approached through a lychgate dated 1722.
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Phase 3 involving restoration of the Lychgate was completed in time for the mayoral visit on remembrance Sunday 2009.
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A new bellcote with a spire, and the lychgate were added. In 1985 the bellcote had to be removed.
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The church is approached from the east through a lychgate at the end of Ifield Street, the ancient village street.
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The church dates from the 13th century and was restored in 1865. The lychgate and churchyard wall are Grade II listed.
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The lychgate at St Mary Magdalene's Church, Bolney, given to the church in 1905, stands on a base of Sussex Marble.
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To the south of the churchyard is a lychgate. This structure, which with its flanking walls is a Grade II listed building, was erected after World War I as a memorial. The dedication of the lychgate in 1921 Plaques list the names of the village's fallen soldiers and also the names of those who served and returned.
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The tower houses eight bells, one dating to 1586. The church is grade I listed and there are associated grade II listings for churchyard railings, a memorial, the lychgate and a former church grammar school. The lychgate, by Cecil Greenwood Hare, also functions as a war memorial. A Saxon cross in the churchyard was relocated from Tatenhill.
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In 1900 the chancel was deepened to created a complete cruciform plan and an exterior porch (lychgate) was added to the church.
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Lychgate of Christ Church, Totland Christ Church, Totland is a parish church in the Church of England located in Totland, Isle of Wight.
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Lychgate designed by John Douglas In the churchyard is a sundial set on a wooden plinth. The lychgate is at the main, southwest entrance. A slate hipped roof is supported by three tie-beams and has a central cross. The middle tie-beam is inscribed in Welsh on the church side and in English on the side of the road.
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The lychgate at the entrance to the churchyard, and the adjoining churchyard wall, are listed at Grade II. The lychgate is in stone with a slate roof, and is dated 1909. There are gargoyles at the corners, and a cross on the ridge. The churchyard contains the war graves of three service personnel of World War I, and seven of World War II.
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Bickington Methodist church Church and lychgate, Bickington Bickington is a village and civil parish in the Teignbridge district of Devon, England, on the east edge of the Dartmoor National Park. At the 2001 census it had a population of 311. The village is about five miles west of Newton Abbot, on the River Lemon. The church is 15th century; its lychgate has a room over it.
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The lychgate constructed in 1875 is listed separately as a Grade II listed structure. The churchyard contains a large number of Grade II listed monuments and headstones.
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The new church was designed by J. Loughborough Pearson, and was consecrated in 1886. A lychgate was erected in memory of Thomas Henry Ismay of Dawpool in 1900.
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On the cemetery at some distance from the church itself stands another medieval building, probably originally a residential building, which for a long time served as a lychgate.
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There is a holy well just below the lychgate and an ancient yew tree to the northeast of the church which has been estimated as being 1800 years old.
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The churchyard is entered from the Warwick Road by way of a lychgate or Corpse gate. Historically, at the lychgate, the coffin was rested on a wooden or stone table while the priest said part of the burial service. It bears the carved legend: Enter into his altar with thanksgiving. The graveyard contains some interesting memorials to the Victorian parish population, particularly those on the west side of the graveyard, which faces Warwick Road.
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Entry to the church is also through a gravelled path from the lychgate. The southern wall has stone steps which lead to Tyn-llan (a public house in the past). Church yard is closed within a boundary wall except the extended part of western end of the church. There is an earthen bank of 1 m height, which delimits the earlier boundary of the church where there is a lychgate made of stone.
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There is a four bay nave of gothic revival style, a two bay chancel and a north vestry. The church has an ornate lychgate on the southern side of its boundaries.
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The monument location is enclosed by a brick and stone fence (1936) with wire mesh infill panels and lychgate entrance with cupola roof. The lychgate entrance is a concrete and stone temple-like turnstile gateway that bears the Buddhist word of "Nirvana". The entrance is topped by a bell and incorporates blue tiles donated from the Saints Mary and Joseph Catholic Cathedral, Armidale. The handles of the turnstile are inlaid with symbols of the navy and army.
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St Winifred's Church (Grade I) and the Lychgate (Grade II). Kingston on Soar has a Grade I listed church along with 18 other listed structures in the parish, all Grade II listed.
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In the churchyard is a sundial dating probably from the mid 18th century. It is listed at Grade II. The lychgate is a memorial to the First World War and incorporates a clock.
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The stained glass windows were repaired by Holywell Glass Ltd. The lychgate in the churchyard is dedicated as a war memorial to those from the village who died in the two World Wars.
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Two shed-roofed additions run the length of the north and south profiles. The lychgate and bell tower, both of which open to North Division Street and were added later, are to the north and south respectively. The lychgate has a wooden gabled top. The 16-foot (4.8 m) square tower is faced in similar stone to the nave, and has Gothic louvered vents below its crenelated roofline and stepped buttresses at the corners from the bottom of the vent to ground level.
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The design and installation of the new windows began in 1952 and were finally unveiled in 1955. The new windows commemorate the soldiers of the units that were involved in the defence of Malaya and Singapore. The design consists of a figure of Jesus Christ and the badges of the units. Lychgate The lychgate in front of the church is a replica of the one built in 1942 by the prisoners of war of the 18th Division interned in Changi Prison.
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Outside the church, the large lychgate at the west of the churchyard dates from the early 19th century. Inside the churchyard, the gravestones have been moved to the side, possibly for ease of maintenance.
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The lychgate was designed by Francis E. Jones of London and built in 1879 in memory of the Reverend Latimer M. Jones, vicar of the parish 1863–77. The gate is Grade II listed.
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A lychgate was built at the entrance to the churchyard in about 1930. The church was declared redundant on 1 June 1980, and was vested in the Churches Conservation Trust on 27 June 2006.
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The Lychgate was built in 1715 and re-sited to its present position in 1728.St Peter's Churchyard The outstanding feature of the churchyard is the Norman Chapel.Prestbury Cheshire Website. Retrieval date: 26 September 2007.
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The lychgate at the northern entrance to the churchyard doubles as a war memorial and was erected by public subscription and a donation from the Mosley family in 1919. Designed by Cecil Greenwood Hare and built in Lichfield the structure contains a bronze crucifix and lists of those villagers killed during the two world wars. The pierced side panels were replaced with new versions, in oak, in the 2000s. The lychgate was granted protection as a grade II listed building on 26 March 1986.
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With funding from parishioners and neighbouring Catholic parishes, a permanent altar, Stations of the Cross, and other church furnishings were installed with a lychgate built outside, allowing the church to be used solely for Christian worship.
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The box-pews and pulpit were replaced in 1879, when internal restoration work was carried out. A new font was installed in 1865. In 1953 a lychgate was installed in the southern face of the church.
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Its lychgate containing the church bell was dedicated to the memory of King George VI. It replaced an earlier wooden church. The Anglican Church of the Good Shepherd was dedicated on 23 August 1959 by Archbishop Halse.
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Its path in the form of a 'stone causeway' and the lychgate along this are separately listed.Stone path Lychgate Many interior features are intricately carved and old furnishings are featured: its octagonal pulpit is one of 1620 and the font is Victorian. In the west window of the former nave are some fragments of ancient glass, a portion of the figure of a saint, and several other odd pieces, including two words of an inscription. Also in the first window of the north wall are two small eyelets containing roses and leaves.
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In and around the churchyard are three items, all dating from 1877, and all listed at Grade II. The lychgate and the wall, which completely encircles the churchyard, were designed by Street, and both are constructed in sandstone ashlar. Over the lychgate is a gabled roof, with a cross on its north end. In the churchyard is a cross, also designed by Street and in sandstone ashlar. It is circular in plan and consists of a fluted shaft on a base of three steps, carrying a foliated cross under a crocketed, gabled canopy.
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The old east window of St Enghenedl's now faces west, and the bellcote is in the middle of the roof. The churchyard, gravestones, and lychgate of St Enghenedl's remain in their original location, but the churchyard is now overgrown.
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The church was built between 1860 and 1862 to designs of the architect George Edmund Street, funded by Sir Thomas Percival Heywood, 2nd Baronet. At the same time, Street also designed the lychgate, churchyard cross, vicarage and village school.
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The lychgate is dated 1882 and is listed at Grade II. It consists of open timber framing and a hipped Lakeland slate roof. The churchyard contains two neighbouring war graves of a soldier and an airman of World War II.
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The original church, mentioned in the Domesday survey, no longer exists. An early Victorian church now stands in its place. St Mary's was built in 1846 with a lychgate and stained glass. St Mary's Church Many older cottages do survive.
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As part of the WAY 1979 celebrations the Western Australian chapter of the Australian Institute of Builders restored the lychgate. Wrought iron gates completed the boundary fence in 1991; the gates are decorated with the words All Saints and Ellen's Brook.
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A Vanished Corner of Old Chiswick The Lychgate Thomas Matthews Rooke (1842, London – 1942, London) was a British watercolourist. He worked as a designer, as an assistant to other artists, and was commissioned by John Ruskin to make architectural drawings.
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St George's church, Beckenham, South London, said to be the oldest in England Most were built from around the mid-15th century although some date from earlier, including the 13th-century lychgate of St George's churchyard in Beckenham, South London, claimed to be the oldest in England.Brewer's Britain and Ireland, compiled by John Ayto and Ian Crofton, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005, After World War I a number of lychgates were built as war memorials, for example that of Sandridge, Hertfordshire. Sandridge lychgate is a Grade II listed building as is that of St Cuthbert's, Allendale, Northumberland.St Cuthbert's.
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Many of the windows were replaced in 1846, or altered during the 1860s. The decorative floor tiling in the chancel and aisles dates from 1866/76 and is by Maw & Co. There are a large number of important tombs and memorials inside the church. The tomb of Rhys ap Thomas, reputed to have made the fatal blow to King Richard III, is located inside the church. Lychgate viewed from the churchyard The northwest entrance to the churchyard (in front of the church tower) is via a red sandstone neo-Gothic lychgate and a set of iron gates.
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The presence of the motte is not indicated on 1:50 000 or 1:25 000 Ordnance Survey maps. A good view of the motte can be obtained from a field gate on the corner of Church Road, opposite the church lychgate.
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There are a number of memorials to the Coleridge family inside the church, while another noteworthy feature is the east window, designed by Augustus Pugin and installed in 1852 by Hardman & Co. of Birmingham. A lychgate to the church grounds is dated 1897.
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The church dates from the beginning of the 13th century. The chancel and nave were rebuilt in 1863 by Thomas Chambers Hine. The churchyard contains three Grade II listed chest tombs, and the lychgate and churchyard walls are also Grade II listed.
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Gresson died at his home in Fendalton on 31 January 1901 on his birthday. He was buried at St Barnabas churchyard in Woodend next to his wife. Parishioners from Woodend built a lychgate to commemorate the judge. His daughter Henrietta died in 1918.
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The Norman Chapel, the lychgate and west wall, the Hearse House, and the sundial in the churchyard are listed at Grade II. It is a Church of England parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield and the deanery of Macclesfield.
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It is now displayed inside the church. A lychgate was added at the churchyard entrance in the 20th century to the design of architect Philip Mainwaring Johnston. St Mary's Church opened a mission hall in Fontwell village in 1930. This closed about 30 years later.
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In 1531 Archbishop John Alen restored the vicarage. The church may have served as a safe house for persecuted clergy. The church was replaced by the modern church in 1838. The church is located within a modern graveyard, accessible by a lychgate, built c. 1920.
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Jackson's chancel roof was painted by Ninian Comper in 1950. The stone is from Barnack. There are Ketton headstones in the churchyard; one by the lychgate depicts mason's tools and is by stonemason William Hibbins of Ketton. William Hibbins built Hibbins House, which is still standing today.
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' The oldest windows in the church are from the 1800s. They are situated behind the altar and they have been there since 1852. In 1863 the lychgate was built that leads into the church graveyard. The graveyard is mainly occupied with old tombstones with faded engravings.
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The churchyard was bounded by a flint wall in 1829 and was extended to the north in 1928. Most of the headstones in the churchyard date from the 18th century onwards. The lychgate was taken in 1977 from West Harling Church to form a new entrance.
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Winstone, pg 3 The lychgate was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott (c1867) Scott also designed the lychgate which presumably replaced an earlier structure; he incorporated the large rectangular stone traditionally used for resting coffins on into his design. The gates were replaced in the early 21st-century following Scott's original design. The heavily restored 15th-century pulpit The wine-glass stone pulpit was unearthed during restoration in the 1860s buried in a mutilated condition beneath the church floor. It is believed to be 15th-century and is decorated with beautifully carved figures of Jesus and the Four Evangelists; it retains some of its original colour but was heavily restored during the 19th-century.
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The lychgate is designated as a Grade II listed building. It is thought to be contemporary with the church, and is built in stone with a Cotswold slate roof. The churchyard contains the war graves of six Commonwealth service personnel of World War I, and ten of World War II.
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Plaque on the lych gate, 2005 The lychgate (built 1980s), a memorial to Richard Henry Pickering, a trustee of the church, who died in 1976. The gable roof has fibrous cement shingles, while the sides are half stuccoed brick and half carved timber. The open sides repeat the Gothic lancet arch.
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The church is located in a cemetery surrounded by a low wall in which a remaining medieval lychgate still sits. Outside, the church stables still stand, which is uncommon. The façade of the church itself has decorated Gothic portals. Of these, the one in the tower is the most richly decorated.
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A plaque in the lychgate of the churchyard explains St Leodegar's martyrdom. The nave is aisleless, and there is a south porch. The old church was well documented in the 18th and 19th centuries. Its rector between 1719 and 1759, Charles Covert, did work on the chancel during his incumbency.
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The lychgate, erected by Angela Francis, dates to 1902. Most of the original older-style Queenslander homes date back to the colonial period and were built high on the hills around the lookout. The first rail line opened in 1874. A small commercial district on Oxley Road gradually grew around it.
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Further away, to the south, are the footings of a former round tower. Some of the gravestones in the churchyard contain Victorian and Art Deco carving. At the north entrance to the churchyard is a lychgate which was built during the Victorian restoration but contains wood brought from Upton Magna church.Cranage, p. 176.
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Miss Brown, who died the following year, was a noted local benefactor and paid for the erection of a number of buildings in Ormesby including the Queen Victoria Jubilee Memorial (Lamp), the churchyard lychgate, the tower and spire of St Cuthbert's Church and her own grade II listed monument in the churchyard.
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The west tower has a ring of six bells.Gloucester & Bristol Diocesan Association, Swindon Branch In the churchyard near the entrance is a medieval standing cross that is a scheduled Ancient Monument. The church can be reached only on foot, via a path linking the lychgate with the east end of The Street.
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Fleringe Church () is a medieval church in Fleringe on the Swedish island of Gotland. Although heavily damaged by fire in 1676, medieval mural fragments survive in the church, which also still has its medieval lychgate and preserved church stables. The church is associated with the Diocese of Visby of the Church of Sweden.
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The summit has large corner shafts with pinnacles. There are traceried 3-light bell-chamber windows with a dense quatrefoil interlace and blank 2-light windows on the two lower stages. The flanked niches were for statuary, however this is now missing. The church has a triangular lychgate designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens.
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Its layout and funerary furniture are indicative of 19th century cemeteries. The place is important because of its aesthetic significance. The hilltop setting of Francis Outlook with its panoramic views of Brisbane and as an example of a well considered timber framed lychgate, Francis Outlook is important because of its aesthetic significance.
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The church lychgate dating from 1889. Although largely rebuilt in 1873 the church has some late medieval fabric. It is built of Sandstone ashlar with a slate roof. The church has a west tower built in three stages with diagonal buttresses, a clockface on its southside and belfry windows of two cusped lights.
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Church Lychgate The station was near the centre of Kirk Michael, on a minor road leading to the coast. At the top of Station Road the follows spreads out; nearby were a branch of the Isle of Man Bank (closed in 2014 after over 100 years of service), the Mitre Hotel, the local primary school, village stores, local blacksmith, village butchers and the imposing Kirk Michael church with its oak-carved lychgate. The main road through the village forms part of the famous TT mountain circuit. After the railway closed, a steam centre was established not far from the station and this became home to a number of related items, most notably the locomotive Sea Lion from the Groudle Glen Railway.
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Features of interest include the red-brick St Andrew's Methodist Church (1866),Genuki: Newhall (near Audlem) which has an associated Grade II listed lychgate and war memorial dating from around 1919Images of England: Lychgate at Aston Burial- ground leading to a small cemetery. Aston House Farm is a Grade II listed, black-and-white timber farmhouse, dating from 1662.Images of England: Aston House Farmhouse The village also has a Grade II listed red telephone box, an example of the 1935 K6 style designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott.Images of England: Telephone kiosk, Newhall, Aston Aston Mill is an animal feed mill run by H J Lea Oakes Ltd, one of the few large industrial enterprises in this predominantly agricultural area.
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Traversing the parish is the Trent and Mersey Canal. Four of the listed buildings are associated with the canal: two bridges, an aqueduct, and a milepost. The other listed buildings consist of a former farmhouse, now a public house, with two of its associated buildings, another farmhouse, a cottage, and a church with its lychgate.
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There is a boundary wall with lychgate made of the same stone as the main building. In the churchyard are nine Commonwealth War Graves belonging to soldiers of World War I and World War II. St Mark's parish hall, used for meetings and functions, was opened and dedicated by Bishop Flagg on 6 June 1986.
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The church- yard is entered from the main road by a lychgate. Burnsall is a centre for walking, trout fishing, picnics, and weddings. An annual feast day games in August includes amateur competitions, tug of war and fell races. The village cricket pitch is below Burnsall Fell and is half enclosed by the river.
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There are three buildings on the property: the church hall with lychgate, church house and parish house. All are considered contributing to its historic character and the National Register listing. The church's nave is a one-story rectangular structure of coursed granite. It has a gabled roof with slate shingles and a parapeted west gable.
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South of the church is the rectory. All buildings on the property except the garage, and the lychgate, are considered contributing resources to the church's historic character. To the west of the garage is a small playground, amidst a broader lawn. Tall mature trees shade the buildings and line the edges of the property.
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Anglo Saxon high cross The churchyard surrounds the church, particularly to the south and east. There are sandstone gates and gate piers that date from the late 18th century. A lychgate dates from 1907. To the north, there is a two-tiered burial vault built into a hill, with the remains of the Bradshaw family.
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The grounds include a graveyard. At the southern entrance to the churchyard, there is a lychgate. The churchyard is home to the listed Thomas Monument, about south of the tower. Its rectangular slate stone flanked by carved Ionic columns and a round arch bears the inscription "Death spares none", good lettering with verses to Alice Thomas, 1826.
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There are 53 other listed buildings in Great Gransden parish, including houses, barns and the remains of a churchyard cross. The brick vicarage, north-west of the church, was built by Barnabas Oley, probably between 1660 and 1685. A lychgate was built in the churchyard in 1920 to commemorate Great Gransden men who died in World War I.
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There are traceried 3-light bell-chamber windows with a dense quatrefoil interlace and blank 2-light windows on the two lower stages. The flanked niches were for statuary, however this is now missing. The churchyard has a triangular lychgate designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens. Several of the chest tombs and headstones in the churchyard are also listed buildings.
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The five Francis family graves are situated together and surrounded by a white painted fence. The other graves are located to the northern side of this and scattered in a seemingly random way. The lychgate is a small timber structure supported on posts with a gable roof covered by timber shingles. The floor of the structure is concrete.
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The church is built of magnesian limestone and has a pitched slate roof. The church has a tower to its western side with a spire atop. The tower has three offset stages, a round-headed window and clocks on the southern, northern and western face. The church has an ornate lychgate on the southern side of its boundaries.
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Coria Roman town. The Church of England parish church of Saint Andrew is thought to have been consecrated in 676. Saint Wilfrid is supposed to have had the church built at the same time as Hexham Abbey. It has been altered several times since, with a Norman doorway, and a lychgate built as a First World War memorial.
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Boulder signifying the grave of "Singleton witch" Meg Shelton The churchyard lies mostly to the south and west of the church. There are stocks close to the lychgate. These date from the 18th century or earlier, and have been restored. They have two stone shafts with round heads, the right- hand of which is inscribed with the initials "AB".
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It has been described as the best-known work of the architects, an 'extraordinary free- form brick church that forms the nucleus of the most important cluster of their buildings' surviving. The lychgate and rectory that adjoin the main church are also of architectural significance, and each is on the register of protected buildings in its own right.
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Tympanon of the lychgate to the cemetery. In 1853 Gobat separated a part of the cemetery, which had not yet been used for burials, and moved the Bishop Gobat School (Bischof-Gobat- Schule; est. 1847, erected between 1853 and 1856 on that site) thereto, taken over by the Church Missionary Society (CMS) in 1877.Gottfried see Bibliography for details, p. 13.
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The lychgate is one of the memorials to the dead of World War I in the village. The interior fittings are mostly from the 19th century but the font is from the 13th century and some of the original arches have survived the 19th century restoration. A tomb from 1463 with recumbent figures was reinstalled in the church after the restoration.
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St Cynwyl's. The Church of Saint Cynwyl, in Caio village centre, is surrounded by the former lands of the substantial Dolaucothi estate, where the Johnes family, patrons of the advowson, worshipped. The family vault in the north aisle dates back to the 18th century. There is also a memorial to Lieutenant-General Sir James Hills- Johnes, VC, at St Cynwyl's Lychgate.
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At Berrynarbor, Devon, there is a lychgate in the form of a cross, while at Troutbeck, Westmorland, there are three lychgates to one churchyard. Some elaborate gates have chambers over them. In Texas and the South of the US, lychgates are simpler in construction, usually consisting of a steel or wooden span with a sign showing the name of the burial space.
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The triumphal cross dates from circa 1300, and the baptismal font, possibly made by the artist Hegvald, is a Romanesque piece from the 12th century, richly decorated. The church lies in a cemetery that is surrounded by a low limestone wall, in which a medieval lychgate still survives. Endre Church belongs to the Church of Sweden and lies within the Diocese of Visby.
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Sir John Kelk was an eminent Victorian engineer and the contractor for the Albert Memorial. He also donated the lychgate and lectern to Stanmore Church. The lych gate is still in existence and in regular use. Sir John began immediate improvements to the Priory spending £9,000 on the conservatories alone (demolished in 1939 in order to provide additional office space).
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Although the parish is in Herefordshire, its mail is handled in Worcester and its outward postcode is WR6. St Mary's parish church at the south of the village is approached through a lychgate. The church contains a font over 700 years old, and a memorial depicting the carved figure of a knight in armour, sword in hand and a lion at his feet.
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In the churchyard is a sundial dating from the 18th century which consists of an octagonal shaft on square steps. The shaft has a square dial on a square stone head and a gnomon is present. It is listed Grade II. The lychgate dated around 1896 is also listed Grade II. The churchyard also contains the war grave of a Royal Navy officer of World War II.
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The parish's war memorial is located at the entrance to the churchyard in the form of a lychgate. Eleven men from Sibton lost their lives in the First World War; their names are carved into the memorial. Two of the men are buried in the graveyard. During the Second World War, a further two men lost their lives, and their names were added to the memorial.
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The lychgate is a memorial to those who died in the two World Wars. There is also an illuminated Book of Remembrance at the west end of the church. In the churchyard there is a plot set aside for the Polish Catholic community who live in the area. There was a Polish re-settlement camp at Scot's Common, near Checkendon, after the Second World War.
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Lychgate At the entrance to the churchyard is a lych gate dated 1879 which was also probably designed by Douglas. It is made of oak with a stone slate roof and is listed Grade II. The churchyard contains the war grave of a Royal Army Service Corps officer cadet of World War II, and of a Royal Air Force flight lieutenant killed in Afghanistan in 2006.
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Of later date is the unusual collection of church silver, including a unique set of bridal jewellery from the 18th century. The entrance to the church cemetery is an unusual combination of lychgate and bell tower, erected in 1806-07. It houses two church bells, made in 1749 and 1791 respectively. There is also a burial chapel for the local aristocratic family Silverstolpe on the grounds.
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All that survives is the organ, which in 1979 was installed at nearby St Andrew, Gorleston. He also designed the Grade II listed Lowestoft Town Hall, which was built on the High Street in 1857. Clemence designed several buildings in Kirkley Cemetery; the Lychgate, South Western and North Eastern Chapels which were all listed in 1998 as Grade II listed buildings. These were built in 1880.
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Darwin was on good terms with the local curate. He contributed to the church, helped with parish assistance and proposed a benefit society which became the Down Friendly Society with Darwin as guardian and treasurer. On Sundays Emma took the children to church. Darwin sometimes went with them as far as the lychgate to the churchyard, and then he would go for a walk.
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A vestry and a replacement for the old south chapel were built later in the 19th century. The churchyard was extended in the late 19th century, and a lychgate was added in 1908. The church was hit by a bomb during a Second World War bombing raid on 21 February 1941. Although it did not explode, it travelled through the tower and wrecked it.
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Kingsley is a civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester, England. Other than the village of Kingsley, the parish is entirely rural. It contains 13 buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England as designated listed buildings. Other than the church and its lychgate, and the wall of a former Quaker burial ground, the structures are all related to domestic buildings or farms.
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It is under this Lychgate that the priest conducted the first part of the funeral service under its temporary shelter. Once the body was blessed, it could enter upon hallowed or blessed ground. Generally, the ground outside a church is not considered sacred. But, when the church in constructed in or next to a cemetery then the ground in and around the Church has been consecrated.
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The church is away from the main village, close to Bagborough House. The location of the church away from the village is believed to be a result of an outbreak of Black Death, when may of the villagers died. They then abandoned the area around the church and rebuilt houses further down the hill. The lychgate is dedicated to the memory of Robert Brooke-Popham.
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The Rector of the parish church from 1900 to 1916 was Rupert Edward Inglis who was a former England rugby international. He was killed at the Battle of the Somme in 1916. His letters home to his wife from the front were published by his widow after the war. He is commemorated on the war memorial, and the lychgate at St Mary's church is dedicated to him.
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St James Church. The chancel was added by Sir George Gilbert Scott in 1868.The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, Nikolaus Pevsner, 1963 p106 Pevsner also mentions a mediaeval lychgate, a font dated 1722 and the remains of a previous carved font incorporated into a doorway in the tower. Carved stones in the fabric of the church have been identified as dating from the Saxon period.
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It was designed by architect John Hayward with an interior attributed to William Butterfield and a lychgate that was his work. The foundation stone was laid in July 1843Kelso Mail, 17 July 1843. Cited in Tristram Clarke MA PhD, "A display of Tractarian energy: St John's Episcopal Church, Jedburgh", 1997, Scottish Church History Society Vol XXVII . It was consecrated just a year later on 15 August 1844Ed.
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The extension was built and the south wall of the church demolished and replaced by arches. A door was pierced into the tower to provide an entry to the south aisle and a flank door allowed access to the graveyard. By 1869 the historic box pews had been replaced and choir stalls had been installed. In 1872 the lychgate was erected at a cost of £130.
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The Church lies atop a small mound located at the junction of Chapel Street, Church Street and Old Church Green. The boundary is made of brick with two entrances and contains many established trees. The one on Church Street is not gated, whereas the entrance on Chapel Street has a Lychgate. Amongst the graves in the churchyard are those of village men that died during the nearby Battle of Marston Moor.
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In the churchyard is a large chest tomb, an early example of the type, in memory of William Maurice who died in 1622. It is listed at Grade II. At the east end of the churchyard is a lychgate, built in 1698 and restored in the 19th century. It is built in stone with a slate roof and has wooden seats on each side. It is also listed at Grade II.
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Of this building, only the outer walls and the west tower, which contains six bells, survived its restoration of 1862–3 by John Hayward, funded by Mark Rolle. Rolle also donated the marble and alabaster pulpit. A memorial cross erected by the parishioners in his memory stands in the churchyard to the east of the church directly in front of the lychgate. In 1879 an organ chamber and vestry were added.
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In his retirement, Dowding became actively interested in Spiritualism, both as a writer and speaker. His first book on the subject, Many Mansions, was written in 1943, followed by Lychgate (1945), The Dark Star and God's Magic. Rejecting conventional Christianity, he joined the Theosophical Society which advocated belief in reincarnation. He wrote of meeting dead "RAF boys" in his sleep – spirits who flew fighters from mountain-top runways made of light.
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This dates from 1900 and may have been designed by Charles Eamer Kempe. Other stained glass was provided by the local firm Clayton & Bell. A new lychgate, reredos and altar were installed in 1913; all were donated to the church as memorials. Another new organ replaced its predecessor in 1939; this was in turn removed in 1972 in favour of a better model, which cost about £6,000 (£ in ).
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The lychgate entrance to the church yard was constructed in 1959 as a memorial to Rev. Canon William Turnbull, who was vicar at the church 1855–1915, while the stainless steel weathervane on top of the tower, in the shape of a fish, was a handmade gift from local resident; Arnold Lesley Smith (1916–1986), in 1975. The fish is an early Christian symbol and its stainless steel represents local industry.
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Minor restoration work was carried out in the 20th century. A blocked window, discovered in the north wall of the chancel, was found be an original Anglo-Saxon window. The former side-chapel on the north side was discovered during excavation work in 1918. The lychgate at the entrance to the churchyard was built in the early 1920s by Philip Mainwaring Johnston and serves as Clayton's war memorial.
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Lady Mary Martin is also remembered on a plaque, her maiden name being Crozier. Admiral Crozier is buried near to Lord Tennyson in a large Table Tomb. The lychgate was built compete with roof in memory of The Crozier Family. The churchyard contains 20 Commonwealth war graves, 15 of World War I, including an unidentified seaman, and five from World War II, CWGC Cemetery report, details from casualty record.
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So, it is with St. Paul's, immediately beyond the East wall is the 200-year-old cemetery. This combination circumstances demonstrates the significance of the Lychgate to not only the orthodox Christian but to the historical authenticity of church structure. The Rectory was built in 1884 – 5. In 1928 the triplet window was replaced by a window designed by the D’Ascenzo Studios of Philadelphia, donated by the Rev.
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A number of inscribed slabs were relaid in the passages and new tiles added to the chancel and sacrarium floors. A new traceried pulpit of oak was created by Mr. Harley of Plymouth and all of the church's windows, except for the east window in the chancel, was newly glazed by Messrs. Fouracre and Watson of Stonehouse. A holy table of oak and the churchyard lychgate was gifted by Rev.
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The entrance is through a small porch with ornate ironwork hinges and decoration on the doors. The churchyard is surrounded by a low stone wall incorporating a lychgate. The new chapel's innovative design was controversial at the time, with some parishioners objecting to the inclusion of a chancel with a screen, which symbolically separated the priest from the laity. Also, no pew rents were charged for the open bench pews.
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Entrance to the church is by way of the lychgate. It was first erected here in 1872, and rebuilt in 1991. It bears the legend ’Both High and Low, Rich and Poor together’. In the south west corner of the churchyard there is a young yew tree, taken as a cutting from the Eastling Yew in Kent, believed to have been alive at the time of Christ’s birth.
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Sandiway is a village in the civil parish of Cuddington, Cheshire, England. It lies to the southeast of and is contiguous with the village of Cuddington. Sandiway was the birthplace of John Douglas who designed buildings in the centre of Chester, buildings for the Dukes of Westminster and a number of churches in Cheshire. St John's Church, Sandiway, and its lychgate were designed by Douglas and both are Grade II listed buildings.
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Forman died at Repton at the age of 54. His memorial in the church records "He linked together the school and the parish by the sunshine of his presence and the readiness of his service" and the parishioners erected the Lychgate in his memory. Forman married Eleanor Pears - the youngest daughter of Dr. Pears, headmaster at Repton from 1854 to 1874. Their son, Humphrey, played first-class cricket for Somerset and Cambridge University in 1910.
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In the parish along Church Road lies the Church of St Mary’s which was constructed in 1865 by an architect who’s listed name is Cooke. The name of the church, along with many other Christian churches in the United Kingdom is dedicated to Saint Mary the Virgin. The church has a total seating capacity of 160. It is a Grade I listed building due to its “Excellent late medieval roofs; Very good medieval lychgate”.
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Associated with the church are three structures that are listed at Grade II. At the entrance to the churchyard is a 14th-century cross standing on a plinth with three steps. It was formerly sited in the roadway before it was moved to the churchyard. The lychgate dates probably from the 19th century. It is constructed in brick with a tiled roof and sham timber framing with plastered ends to the gables.
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Traditionally in some parts of England, particularly parts of Yorkshire, at the end of the wedding as the bride and groom leave the church the gates are closed (or where there is an absence of gates a rope is held across) by the local children and the couple have to pay them to let them pass. Conversely, in Cheshire and Shropshire, wedding parties would never pass through the lychgate, so as to avoid misfortune.
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In 1909 a gothic-style lychgate was built on the northern side of the cemetery which is locally listed by Hertsmere Borough Council. The cemetery contains thirteen Commonwealth war graves of service personnel, three from World War I and ten from World War II. The cemetery was closed to new burials in the 1970s, however, ashes may still be interred there.Churchyard. St Mary the Virgin and All Saints. Retrieved 30 March 2016.
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The lychgate and Countess Howe memorial were moved from Congerstone in 1919, when the family sold the Gopsall Estate. The Cottage Bookshop in Penn was one of the locations for A Tale of Two Hamlets, an episode of the ITV television programme, Midsomer Murders. In addition, it was used to film an episode called "Bookshop Chuckles" in the children's television show ChuckleVision. The three-acre set for Nanny McPhee was also constructed there.
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Another more comprehensive restoration and enlargement was carried out in 1878 by Waller and Son of Gloucester. This restoration included the building of the north aisle with a chapel at its east end to house a new organ. At this time, the galleries were also removed and the porch was moved from the north to the south doorway. In 1921, the lychgate to the churchyard was opened as a World War I memorial.
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The church has many items which date to medieval times, including a baptismal font which was lost at the time of the Battle of St Fagans and was later discovered in a local field. It also has the only triple decker pulpit found in the Vale of Glamorgan. The lychgate of the churchyard is a memorial to local soldiers killed in World War I; it became a Grade II listed building 25 April 2002.
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Panoramic view from Francis Lookout, across the Brisbane River towards Mt. Coot-tha, 1931 The parkland is called Francis Lookout and is located on the corner of Dewar Terrace and Hilda Street, Corinda. The park was previously used as a private cemetery and still contains several memorials. A timber lychgate was constructed in 1902. The park is in a significant hilltop position with panoramic views of Brisbane, especially towards Mount Coot-tha.
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Also in 1888, he drew up plans to rebuild Finnich Malise, a large Georgian-style house in Drymen in central Scotland, in the Gothic Revival style, but the work was not carried out. In 1909, Stone was commissioned to design a lychgate at St Nicolas' Church, North Stoneham, Hampshire, to commemorate the wife of Bishop James Macarthur. He used timber taken from HMS Thunderer which took part in the Battle of Trafalgar.
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The Lychgate of the church Mapperley is a village and civil parish in the Amber Valley district of Derbyshire, England, situated northeast of Derby and northwest of Ilkeston. In the 2001 census it had a population of 253, increasing to 289 at the 2011 Census. The village is on a loop off the A609 Nottingham to Belper road. A minor road leading to Shipley was closed by Derbyshire County Council in 2007.
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In and near to the churchyard are four structures that are listed at Grade II. The churchyard wall of sandstone and brick dates partly from the late medieval period with additions made in the 18th and 19th centuries. It incorporates a water trough. The lychgate to the churchyard was erected in 1920 as a war memorial to the First World War. It is oak-framed on a sandstone plinth, with an oak crucifix on the front gable.
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St.Mary's lychgate The parish church dedicated to Saint Mary the Virgin is a Grade I listed building. It has two Norman doorways.Pevsner & Cherry, 1975, page 160 The chancel was built late in the 13th century in the Early English Gothic style, and at its east end has a trio of stepped lancet windows. The building was restored by William Butterfield in 1861-63, who added a distinctive corbelled bellcote on the roof above the chancel arch.
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The architectural style follows the High Anglicanism design of John Henry Newman's Littlemore church. Its features include a small four-bay lancet hall, buttresses, a bellcote over the west gable, a south porch, and limestone [dressings. In 1868, the choir section was extended and the chancel, with a triple-light east window, was added by Slater & Carpenter. The lychgate is from 1895 while a 1924 stained glass east window is of the Ascension by F. Clarke & Sons.
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St Peter's Church has a 15th-century tower, a 17th-century lychgate and a Norman font. The church tenor bell was recently restored through donations from the village and can now be heard every Sunday morning during the church service. Berrynarbor has won many awards including Best Kept Village and Britain in Bloom. The community shop which opened in 2008 won the 2008 Countryside Alliance Award for the best village shop/post office in the South West of England.
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The parish church is a Grade I listed building dedicated to St Mary, and dating from the 12th century, with the chancel being restored in 1875 by Temple Moore. There is a 15th-century alms box The lychgate is Grade II listed and may have been built by Temple Moore. Water tower at Old Leake Howsams Mill, built in 1859, is a Grade II listed building at Leake Commonside. A water tower of Swedish design was erected in 1966.
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One of these was with the vicar of Paston concerning William's diversion of a highway from the south to the north side of Paston Hall, situated next to the church. This perhaps helps to explain why today the lychgate entrance to the church stands on a small path to Paston Hall rather than on the road to the north.Yaxley (1977) p 99 says that the old road is now the Bacton drive – currently overgrown – to the present Hall.
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The Church of England parish church of All Saints was originally 13th century. The west wall of the nave has a recess containing a small bell cast by Henry I Bagley of Chacombe in 1673. In 1863 the church was almost entirely rebuilt to plans by the architect William White, who added a bell tower, separate from the church, built over the lychgate. It is one of only three such bell towers in Britain to be so sited.
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About eight carriages containing chief mourners and local VIPs followed the hearse; then came many more VIPs on foot, including local politicians, and six private carriages containing more VIPs followed these. All along the road house-blinds were closed as the hearse drew near. When the procession passed by the mills, machinery stopped, flags dropped to half-mast and the workers lined the route, heads bowed. The surpliced choir met the procession at the church lychgate.
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St Michael's Church and lychgate, viewed from the south west. The main place of worship is St. Michael's Church, surrounded by St. Michael's Churchyard. The church (in full the "Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels in Mickleham") has a Norman west tower and a Norman chancel arch, raised in the 1871 restoration by Ewan Christian, who added neo-Norman aisles and east end. The Norbury chapel on the north side is late Perpendicular, with chequerboard flint and clunch walling.
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A set of clothes rather like the more well-known Blue Coat School was provided for the children and so it became sometimes known as the Green School. Every Whit Monday the children paraded outside the lychgate of Winkfield Church to be given new uniforms. The school was then run by John Boyce from 1759 to 1772 and later his son George from 1772 to 1824. In 1709 the hours of the school were in summer 7 a.m. – 11 a.m.
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Saint George's assumed its current form in 1865, when a local architect, Algernon Perkins, volunteered to redesign the church at his own expense. The spire, added at about this time, was designed by S S Teulon. The lychgate, which forms the main entrance to the church, was built in 1882. It is said to be a copy of the one in Beddington, South London, and was done in memory of the mother-in-law of John Lyndhurst Winslow, rector at the time.
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St Peter's Church is in a rural location along a narrow lane near the village of Llanbedrgoch in Anglesey, north Wales. The village itself is about from Llangefni, the county town. Built on raised ground inside a churchyard, access to which is through a lychgate, the church is dedicated to St Peter. The village takes its name from the church; the Welsh word originally meant "enclosure" and then "church", and "‑bedr" is a modified form of the saint's name, "Pedr" in Welsh.
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St Andrew's is built of flint rubble, which was sourced from the site of the church, Blue Lias and brick, with Caen stone dressings and copings, and a slate roof. It was built to accommodate 200 persons and has a cruciform plan, containing a chancel, central tower, vestry, transepts, sacristy, and nave with north and south aisles. The churchyard is accessed by an oak lychgate and the south porch contains carvings in oak. The church has a Decorated Gothic style.
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Outside the church are two associated structures, both of which are listed at Grade II. At the entrance to the churchyard on the north side is a lychgate dated 1855. It consists of a stone base with octagonal stone piers and timber posts supporting a slate roof. The ridge of the roof consists of pierced tiles, and on the gables are cross finials. To the northwest of the church is a hearse house constructed in stone with a slate roof.
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Inglis' name is among the 72,000 dead with no known grave commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial. There is also a memorial to him at All Saints' Church, Basingstoke where he had served as a curate. At Frittenden, he is commemorated on the War Memorial while the lychgate at St. Mary's church is dedicated to him; there is also a tablet to his memory in the chancel of the church. On Remembrance Sunday 2009, Inglis' nephew, Hubert Ashton, preached at St. Mary's church, Frittenden.
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The church has a west tower with diagonal buttresses and carved obelisk pinnacles, a two light belfry and a lead-clad spire. There is a heavy nave with aisle parapets. The lychgate, officially opened on 26 June 1949 as a memorial to the dead of the two World Wars, was listed at Grade II in 1976. Stones from St. Paul’s Cathedral, Coventry Cathedral, St Martin-le-Grand Church in York, Leeds Town Hall and Leeds Museum were used in its construction.
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Worcester's main shopping centre is the High Street, with several major retail chains. The High Street was partly modernised in 2005 amid controversy and further modernised in 2015, with current redevelopment of Cathedral Plaza and Lychgate Shopping Centre. Much of the protest came at the felling of old trees, the duration of the work (caused by weather and an archaeological find) and removal of flagstones outside the city's 18th-century Guildhall. The other main thoroughfares are the Shambles and Broad Street.
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Retrieved 18 July 2018 St Alban's Church is described in trade directories as of flint, with a nave, south [actually south-east] porch, a west turret with one bell [no evidence of such today], and a chancel containing a credence, piscina and sedilia. Memorial windows are to the Houblon family and to Miss Archer-Houblon. There are 220 sittings for worshippers. A new lychgate was added to the churchyard in 1907, and an oak reredos to the chancel in 1913.
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The church is built from coarse gritstone blocks in a symmetrical Gothic style. There is a low square bell tower with a weather vane on top and a three-faced clock and louvres below. Among the eye catching exterior features are the seven embattled turrets which stand on top of corner piers. The lychgate at the front entrance to the churchyard was erected in July 1940 by Rebecca Nichols in memory of her husband John who died in December 1914.
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Shiptonthorpe is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately south-east of the market town of Pocklington and north-west of the market town of Market Weighton. Lychgate of All Saints Parish Church, Shiptonthorpe According to the 2011 UK census, Shiptonthorpe parish had a population of 503, an increase on the 2001 UK census figure of 419. In Shiptonthorpe there is a petrol station, two Churches, a shop, and a Renault main dealer.
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The graveyard is entered through a lychgate dating from the 1920s. The stocks and whipping post that stood in the graveyard until the late 20th century have now been moved to the Bishop's Stortford Museum. Samuel Horsley was rector of the Church from 1779 to 1782, following in the footsteps of his father John, who was rector from 1745 to 1777.Bishop's Stortford and Thorley history and guide From 1594 to 1610, the rector was Francis Burley, one of the translators of the King James Bible.
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Memorial to Lt General Sir James Hills-Johnes in the lychgate of the Caio churchyard Hills- Johnes was High Sheriff of Carmarthenshire in 1886 and made an honorary freeman of the town of Carmarthen in 1910. He also served as a member of Carmarthenshire County Council. He died on 3 January 1919, aged 85, at his Dolaucothi Estate and was buried at Caio, Carmarthenshire. Hills-Johnes' family history says his younger brother Charles Hills (1847–1935) was the real father of Hollywood actress Merle Oberon.
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In the churchyard are a number of objects which are listed at Grade II. These include a medieval stone coffin, and four monuments. Also in the churchyard are a granite cross dating from the 19th century which is set on a granite base probably dating from before the Norman Conquest, and stocks dating from the 17th century which are set under a 20th-century gabled roof on granite piers. The lychgate at the south entrance to the churchyard dates from the late 19th century.
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A lych gate in Ceredigion, Wales, decorated for a wedding A lychgate, also spelled lichgate, lycugate, lyke-gate or as two separate words lych gate, (from Old English lic, corpse) is a gateway covered with a roof found at the entrance to a traditional English or English-style churchyard. The name resurrection gate is also used. Examples exist also outside the British Isles in places such as Newfoundland, the Upland South, and Texas in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Norway, and Sweden.
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The Church of England parish church of Saint Giles is of Norman architecture and dates from the 12th century. The church features a lychgate and wall paintings from the early 14th century. During the English Civil War, some iron cannonballs were embedded in the stonework around the east window; they were believed to have been fired by Oliver Cromwell's troops when camped in the neighbouring field after the Battle of Aylesbury. Three of these balls are now on display in John Milton's Cottage in the village.
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Outside, the lychgate, which is Grade II listed, was erected in 1918 as a war memorial. St Lazarus Hospital, a leper hospital founded prior to 1180, was sited in Carlton-le-Moorland, and maintained by the Order of Saint Lazarus. It is not known when it closed. According to England and the Crusades, 1095–1588, Nigel of Amundeville gave land at Carlton-le-Moorland to the brethren of the Order of Burton Lazars around 1242, probably because some of his family suffered from leprosy.
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Modern Kirkandrews consists of a handful of domestic buildings, but there are no shops or other businesses. It is approached by a single-lane road which follows the Pulwhirrin Burn south from the main road. The first building the road passes is Kirkandrews Kirk, the village hall built by James Brown and completed in 1906, and a Category B listed building. Designed by the Arts and Crafts architect George Harry Higginbottom, it is accessed through an elaborate timber lychgate, and made to resemble a small castle.
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In the churchyard are two structures also listed at Grade II. At the entrance to the churchyard is a lychgate dating from 1911, consisting of an oak frame on low stone plinth. It has a green slate roof that has ornate bargeboards and finials. Inside the churchyard and overlooking the road is a war memorial dating from 1920. This is in sandstone and consists of a Celtic cross decorated with vine patterns and inscribed with the names of those lost in both World Wars.
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The collection appears to have been highly personal and eclectic with aboriginal artefacts, oriental furniture, porcelain paintings, and sculptures filling the space. The purpose built museum is believed to be rare. To date only one other purpose built private museum has been identified: at "Beaufort Hill" Clayfield where in the 1920s Edward Hawkins had a museum room incorporated as part of a tower addition to an existing house. By 1906 the lychgate at the corner of Toorak Road and Hillside Crescent had also been erected.
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St Lawrence's Church, Walton-on-Trent church proudly boasts its founding as “c.1000” on the sign by its Lychgate. At about that time it would have been in the ownership of Aelfgar, an Anglo-Saxon who also had interests which included manors at Weston-on-Trent, Newton Solney and Repton. It is his name that is given as the former owner of Walton-on-Trent's church, mill, of meadow and 35 square furlongs of pastureThe Domesday book when the new king took them as part of his personal reward for winning the English crown.
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The Lychgate at Kirkley Cemetery Kirkley Cemetery is a burial ground in the Kirkley area of Lowestoft in Suffolk. Located on London Road South, the cemetery is maintained by Waveney District Council and is open for traditional and Green Burials. The cemetery contains 59 war burials from both World Wars which are registered with and maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.Kirkley Cemetery on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website Amongst them are Lance Corporal John Murdoch Dirom who was killed during preparations for Operation Overlord in 1944 aged 22.
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The Huth family were important in church life in the 19th and 20th centuries. Henry Huth was a bibliophile whose enormous collection of rare books was sold for £300,000 in 1910 (£ in ). He lived in an extravagant château-style 1870s house called Wykehurst Place in the parish, and was buried in the churchyard after his death in 1878. In 1905, his son Edward gave the church a large, "magnificent" lychgate constructed from local materials: oak, millstones from a mill in the parish, Sussex Marble (a locally quarried limestone) and a Horsham Stone slab roof.
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In the churchyard is a baluster sundial, and a South African War Memorial from the early 1900s, which is probably by Douglas and Minshull. The south gates to the churchyard, dating from 1877, were by Douglas. To the northwest of the church is a lychgate designed by Sir Herbert Baker in 1929, consisting of a pyramidal roof on ogee timber framing. The churchyard contains 57 Commonwealth war graves of service personnel, 9 from World War I and 48 (predominately Royal Air Force) from World War II. CWGC Cemetery report, details from casualty record.
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They sometimes have recessed seats on either side of the gate itself, for the use of pall-bearers or vigil watchers. > Lychgates followed a somewhat predictable pattern, though great variations > in form could be seen. Typically, they were gable or hipped roofed, often > with benches where mourners could sit, or with a lych-stone, coffin-stool or > trestle, upon which a coffin could be rested. The most common form of lychgate is a simple shed composed of a roof with two gabled ends, covered with tiles or thatch.
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The churchyard gate to the south west of the church is listed grade II (26 October 2002). Given the relative size of the churchyard, the church and each of the two gates have their own postcode: the postal address of the church is Primrose Hill, Llanbadarn Fawr, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion SY23 3QZ, the postcode of the west gate is SY23 3QY."Churchyard gate to SW of Church of St Padarn, Llanbadarn Fawr" British Listed Buildings. The lychgate to the south east is also listed grade II (25 October 2002), and is located at SY23 3RA.
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The cemetery that surrounds the church includes the graves of a number of individuals who were significant to the development of the colony: William Mackie, Frederick Irwin, John Connelly and Richard Edwards are all buried in the graveyard. There is a memorial to George Fletcher Moore inside the church. In 1929 to mark the centenary of settlement a lychgate was erected to mark the farthest point inland that Captain James Stirling's 1827 expedition reached. During 1974 a memorial wall was built in the south west corner of the cemetery.
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The church roof partly collapsed around the same time and had to be repaired. In the 20th century a lychgate was erected at the churchyard entrance, the reredos was replaced, the organ was replaced again, the roof of the chancel was renewed and some stained glass was added. The font was replaced with a Victorian one: the main section of its medieval predecessor was removed and taken to Australia by the Henty family when they emigrated. The Hentys were successful farmers, especially of merino sheep, and lived in one of West Tarring's largest houses.
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Lychgate at the churchyard entrance St Wulfran's Church is built entirely of flint, other than narrow stone quoins at the corners of walls. Although churches incorporating some flint are common in Sussex, St Wulfran's is the only all-flint church in the historic county. The roof was originally slate, but tiles have replaced most of the slate slabs. The two- stage tower is topped with a shallow pyramid-shaped spire of a design known as the "Sussex Cap", and has a circular corbel of similar height in its southeastern corner.
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There are lancet windows of various sizes on all sides of the church and in the tower. Kempe's stained glass can be found in one of the tower windows, the south chapel, the north wall (three windows) and the south wall (two). Internally, there are several arches, some with pointed tops and chamfering; in particular, there are three arched entrances to the chapel on the south side, and a blocked entrance to the former south aisle. The churchyard is entered on the east side through a steep-roofed lychgate with recessed seating.
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The vicar of Ifield, Reverend Robert Goddin, was a strict Protestant who was strongly opposed to Catholic- style worship, ceremony and church decoration, and he enforced the new style rigorously. The rood screen and all internal decoration were removed at this time. Lychgate at the churchyard entrance The next major work took place in 1760, when a gallery was built for the choir and the pews were replaced with large box-pews taken from St Margaret's Church, Westminster (the parish church of the Palace of Westminster in London). More restoration took place in 1785.
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Aldershot: Viggers; p. 111 The churchyard provides a fine view over the city of Truro and above the lychgate is an upper chamber (probably a schoolroom). On 24 March 2007, during a service at the church to mark the 200th anniversary of the parliamentary abolition of the slave trade throughout the British Empire, the life of Joseph Antonio Emidy was featured and some typical pieces of music from his time were played in tribute. Lis Escop (the Kenwyn Vicarage of 1780) became after the establishment of the Diocese of Truro the bishop's palace.
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Latterly, Huth lived at Bolney in Sussex, in a château-style house called Wykehurst Place designed for him by Edward Middleton Barry and built between 1872 and 1874. Construction cost £35,000, and the building has been described as "surely one of the most unlikely houses anywhere in Sussex". It was used as a base for soldiers during World War II, and has featured in several films. Huth was buried in the churchyard of St Mary Magdalene's Church in the village, to which his son Edward gave a "magnificent" lychgate in 1905.
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The village is believed to be an ancient settlement - probably existing 200 to 300 years before the Norman Conquest. It is mentioned in the Domesday Book as Ilestintona, and there is known to have been a church there since at least the 11th century. St. Michael's parish church, as seen today, dates back to the 15th century. It was the site of an incident which has passed into local folklore: in 1639 the schoolroom, which was above the west lychgate of the church, collapsed into the street and churchyard.
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St John the Baptist Church, Hagley, grave of the 4th Baron Lyttelton and of his second wife Sybella Harriet (née Clive). St John the Baptist Church, Hagley, memorial to Sybella Harriet Lyttelton (née Clive, 1836–1900) St John the Baptist Church, Hagley, inscription inside the lychgate In 1876 Lyttelton took his own life at the age of 59 by throwing himself down the stairs in a London house.Sheila Fletcher, Victorian Girls: Lord Lyttelton's Daughters He was succeeded by his eldest son Charles, who later also inherited the viscounty of Cobham. Lady Lyttelton died in 1900.
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The currently visible church dates from the 15th century, but was without doubt preceded by another church on the same site. When this first church was built is not known, though it must have been at the latest during the early 14th century since several of the present church's fittings date from this time and originate from the older church. The church is a so-valled aisleless church, with a southern church porch a northern sacristy. The entrance through the cemetery wall is through a preserved medieval lychgate.
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It had been erected at the camp cemetery to mark the graves of those who had died during internment. In 1952, when the graves were moved to the Kranji War Cemetery, the gate was moved to St. George's Church. Initially, it was installed on the south side of the church; later it was moved to the north-west entrance. After the British military withdrawal from Singapore in 1971, the lychgate was dismantled and taken to England where it was erected at the Queen's Division Depot, Bassingbourne Barracks in Royston, Hertfordshire.
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St. Anne's Chapel in 1850, three years after its completion The Lychgate at St Anne's ChapelSt. Anne's Chapel was the first church in North America constructed according to the principles of the Ecclesiological Society, with which both Bishop Medley and the architect, Frank Wills, had been associated before coming to Canada. As such, it was intended by Bishop Medley to be a model for future parish churches in New Brunswick. It has been authoritatively described as the finest Gothic Revival church of its size and kind in North America.
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St Deiniol's Church is near the centre of Llanddaniel Fab, a village in the south of Anglesey, north Wales. It is reached from the street by passing through a lychgate by the local war memorial. The village takes its name from the church; the Welsh word ' originally meant "enclosure" and then "church", and -ddaniel is a modified form of the saint's name. The date of first construction of a Christian place of worship in the area is uncertain, but it is said by 19th-century writers that a son of St Deiniol (the first Bishop of Bangor) established a church here in 616.
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Because St Mellons lay in Monmouthshire, it also avoided having to abide by the Welsh Sunday Closing Act. St Mellons Church is the Church in Wales parish church and dates from the 14th-century, noted for its unusual plan and double arch to the chancel. It is Grade I listed, while the lychgate to the churchyard is listed Grade II. Bethany Presbyterian Church is also located in the village. Old St Mellons was designated a Conservation Area in 1976, giving Cardiff Council statutory powers to prevent certain changes, while preserving and improving the historical character of the village.
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The interior is separated into three rooms: the left, originally with terracotta tiled floor and with a double door entrance, a forge and two furnaces was likely used to shoe horses. The walls of the rooms have inset projecting iron spikes used to hang forging tools and forged items.The Blacksmiths Shop, Todenham Road, Todenham, Google Street View (image date August 2016). Retrieved 6 October 2019 Facing the church, between the left of The Blacksmiths Shop and the church lychgate, is a Sir Giles Gilbert Scott-designed cast iron K6 Telephone Kiosk (listed 1988), re-purposed as a book exchange repository.
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He said that the east window was "a very good Perpendicular one of three lights, early in the style." He described the churchyard as "secluded, and shaded by fine trees" and the tower as "rude and plain", noting that the "open bell arch" on the west side was comparable to the one at St Mary's Church, Llanerchymedd. A 2006 guide to the churches of Anglesey describes the "fairly large church" as standing in a "quiet wooded location". It also comments upon the "impressive lychgate" at the entrance to the churchyard and the "squat pyramidal structure" on top of the tower.
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The parish of St. Mary was from part of the parish of St. Laurence, Northfield in 1862. St Mary's from the southeast, showing the south transept The church is set back from the main Bristol Road (A38 road) and is approached from the south by a drive, ending at a lychgate at the entrance to the churchyard. There is also an entrance from the north in Lodge Hill Road. St Mary's foundation stone was laid on 12 July 1860 by Joseph Frederick Ledsam, and the Bishop of Worcester, the Right Reverend Henry Philpott, consecrated the church on 12 September 1861.
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By 1680 both were in such poor condition that their parishioners were allowed to travel to worship at St Andrew's instead, and services were no longer held at Durrington or Heene. The early 20th- century lychgate, with the spire of the church behind Major changes were made in the mid-19th century. In 1845 the church ceased to be a peculier of Canterbury and instead was placed under the Diocese of Chichester, in conformity with other Church of England churches in the area. In 1853 the vicar instigated a restoration of the church, raising most of the £2,200 (£ as of ) himself.
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The graveyard contains two large rectangular stones of unknown origin; these are known as the Bolster Stones. In 1921 a war memorial was erected by the side of the lychgate; it takes the form of a Celtic cross and records the names of 48 people of the parish who were killed in conflicts in the 20th century. In the early 1950s thieves stole an amount of lead off the church roof and the ensuing flawed repairs done with asphalt sealed in damp and led to problems with dry rot in the roof timbers. The timbers and roof slates were replaced throughout the 1960s.
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Richard of Cornwall was King John's second son and had served in the Barons' Crusade of 1239, where he succeeded as a negotiator for the release of prisoners. As Saint Leonard is the patron saint of prisoners it is possible that Richard dedicated the church to the saint, although the exact date of the dedication is unknown. The church tower survived the necessary rebuilding works in the 19th century, as did the lychgate. The grave of Private Frederick John White, who was flogged to death at Hounslow Barracks in 1846, can be found in the graveyard.
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The stained glass in the church windows includes panels in the central window on the north side of the nave which were paid for by John or Reginald Pympe of the neighbouring Nettlestead Place in 1438. The north chancel window possibly dates from the 1460s and angels holding heraldic shields in the top lights of many of the windows are also 15th century. Other windows are Victorian or Edwardian in 15th century style. The church lychgate contains a memorial to casualties of both World Wars and the churchyard contains three chest tomb memorials which are Grade II listed.
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Lychgate in Ashwell Ashwell Prison, a former Category C prison, was located about south of the centre of the village but actually in the parish of Burley. Previously the site was a Second World War US army base, home to part of the 82nd Airborne Division. The prison closed in March 2011 and has been redeveloped as Oakham Enterprise Park, a business park for office and light industrial use. The previous kennels of the Cottesmore Hunt, opposite the prison, have now been converted to residential use and the hunt kennels are now based at a farm in the parish.
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The grass, shrubbery, flower beds, and Norway maples and spruce trees were tended by a uniformed and well-trained crew. The park had graveled walks, two timber structures – a pitched-roofed lychgate and a pergola – wooden benches, decorative iron lamp posts, and a central fountain, and was surrounded by a simple iron fence. In contrast, the South Park became a miniature golf course equipped with traps, a water hazard, nighttime illumination, and a professional golfer as an instructor. In 1930 a new course was opened across 41st Street, and the South Park was remade in the style of the North Park.
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The west end and entrance The church is built of flint, with stone dressings and a tiled roof. Although the 19th-century work by Scott also used flint, its pattern is more even than the random distribution seen in the original walls. The entrance is at the west end, opposite the village green, and reached through a lychgate dating from 1897 in memory of Revd Arthur Thomas, vicar of the church for 47 years until his death in 1895. (Two windows in the square tower are also memorials to him.) The entrance door is flanked by two heavy buttresses.
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The church is isolated, located in the countryside of north Anglesey by a farm, about from Llanrhuddlad, in an area of Anglesey known as Mynydd Mechell. Llanfflewin takes its name from the church: the Welsh word ' originally meant "enclosure" and then "church", so "Llanfflewin" means "Church of Fflewin". It is set within a raised circular enclosure, with an arched lychgate (possibly of 17th- century date). It is still in use for worship, and belongs to the Church in Wales, as one of five churches in the combined benefice of Llanfechell with Bodewryd with Rhosbeirio with Llanfflewin and Llanbadrig.
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John Murdoch Dirom on the ParaData - Airborne Assault website Here also are buried civilian casualties of air raids on Lowestoft during World War II.Old Lowestoft website - The Letters (1942) The cemetery's Lychgate,Kirkley Cemetery Lych Gate on the Historic England website South Western Kirkley Cemetery South Western Chapel on the Historic England website and North Eastern Chapels Kirkley Cemetery North Eastern Chapel on the Historic England website were all listed in 1998 as Grade II listed buildings.Kirkley Cemetery on the British Listed Buildings website These were designed by the Lowestoft-born architect J. L. Clemence (1822-1911) and were built in 1880. The first burials took place soon after.
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He ensured that only the finest materials were used with seasoned oak, Ham Hill stone, Maws encaustic floor tiles, and stained glass by Wailes. As part of the work, the churchyard was also enlarged and a lychgate built. Troyte also undertook to pay for the work personally, raising £500 for the project by selling 1,000 oak trees to the Royal Navy in Plymouth. When Arthur's wife Fanny died only two months before the restoration was completed in November 1856, the parishioners gave a richly decorated octagonal font of Caen stone in her memory; similarly, the candelabrum which hangs in the nave was given in Arthur's memory when he died in 1857.
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St Mary Magdalene's Church is an Anglican church in the village of Bolney in Mid Sussex, one of seven local government districts in the English county of West Sussex. The parish church serves a large rural parish centred on a village straddling the ancient London–Brighton road and apparently dates from about 1100, and an older origin has been suggested. Many structural additions have been made over the centuries—including a tower built solely using the labour of villagers—and at the entrance to the churchyard is a "magnificent" 20th-century lychgate made of local materials including Sussex Marble. The church is protected as a Grade I Listed building.
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A traditional English lychgate. In late medieval times a population increase and an expansion of church building took place in Great Britain inevitably encroaching on the territories of existing mother churches or minsters. Demands for autonomy from outlying settlements made minster officials feel that their authority was waning, as were their revenues, so they instituted corpse roads connecting outlying locations and their mother churches (at the heart of parishes) that alone held burial rights. For some parishioners, this decision meant that corpses had to be transported long distances, sometimes through difficult terrain: usually a corpse had to be carried unless the departed was a wealthy individual.
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The name is derived from the meadow stream which flows through both villages, from Old English winn and burna. St Giles and All Hallows refer to the respective dedications of the churches, Saint Giles being an 8th-century hermit of Provençal origin and All Hallows meaning "all saints". In 1742, All Hallows church was demolished, leaving only the lychgate and churchyard. While the parish was centralised in Wimborne St Giles, the churchyard at All Hallows continued to be used for burials up to the end of the 19th century, because there was no room for a burial ground at Wimborne St Giles church, which was restored in 1852.
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Hollington became part of the Borough of Hastings in 1897. After this, little change occurred in the church itself, although a lychgate was built at the entrance to the churchyard in 1937, general repairs were made in 1964 and an extension was added in 1977 to form a parish room and vestry. The churchyard is large and has been used for centuries—the first recorded burial took place in 1606, and the oldest surviving gravestone dates from 1678—and it is the last remaining private burial ground in the Borough of Hastings. Hollington grew substantially in the 19th and 20th centuries, in line with the rest of Hastings.
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St Dona's Church is on a steep hill near the coast on the eastern side of Anglesey, about from the village of Llanddona itself. The village takes its name from its parish church: the Welsh word originally meant "enclosure" and then "church", and "–ddona" is a modified form of the saint's name. St Dona's is surrounded by a churchyard, entered through a lychgate dated 1906 which bears a memorial to Henry Stanley, 3rd Baron Stanley of Alderley, "Patron and Benefactor of this church". According to the 19th-century Anglesey historian Angharad Llwyd, a church was built here in 610, dedicated to St Dona, who lived on the sea shore nearby.
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The memorial was designated as a Grade II listed building on 13 September 2016. Grade II is the lowest of the three grades of listing, and is applied to "buildings [that are] are of special interest". The reasons for designating this building are its historic interest "as an eloquent witness to the tragic impact of world events on the local community, and the sacrifice it has made in the conflicts of the 20th century"; its architectural interest as being "an intricately carved cross in the Celtic style"; and its group value with St Paul's Church and the lychgate also in the churchyard, both of which are listed at Grade II.
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St Mary's Church from the northwest, showing the lychgate The east window St Mary's Church does not have a homogeneous external appearance and cannot be attributed to one era: the gradual change and growth of the building over the centuries is more apparent. The plan consists of a west tower with an entrance, chancel with a wide chancel arch, nave with an aisle on the south side, south (Covert) chapel next to the chancel, south porch, two vestries and an organ chamber. Sussex stone rubble is the main building material, although there is some ashlar as well (for instance in the walls of the Covert Chapel). Slates and tiles, some of Horsham stone, are laid on the roofs.
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As well as St Winifred's Church (Grade I) and Kingston Hall (Grade II), there are 17 other listed structures in Kingston on Soar, all Grade II listed: 1, 3, 5 and 7, the Green; 9, 11, 15, 17 and 19, the Green; 21, 23, 25 and 27, the Green; Church Farmhouse; K6 Telephone Kiosk; Kegworth Bridge; Kegworth Shallow Lock; Kingston Fields Farmhouse and Workshops; Lodge and Attached Gateway; Lychgate at Entrance to Churchyard of Church of St Winifred; Manor Farmhouse; Pavilion in the Garden of Kingston Hall; Pumphouse; Stable Block at Kingston Hall; Stables at Manor Farm; The Old Schoolhouse and The Post Office. Kingston Park Pleasure Gardens, which surrounds Kingston Hall, is also Grade II listed.
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The Elizabethan pulpit has arched columns and panels containing floral motifs. The lychgate and the vestry date from 1894 and are by Henry Wilson, the best pupil of J. D. Sedding.The Pilgrim's Guide to Devon's Churches, Cloister Books (2008) pg 103Nikolaus Pevsner, The Buildings of England: North Devon, Penguin Books (1952) pgs 104-106 The 'Glory' ceiling is 15th-century The base of the 14th- century tower The first recorded Rector was Oliver de Tracey in 1263, which is also the approximate date of the first stone building on the site. Little remains of this church, ordered to be enlarged in 1321 by Walter de Stapledon, Bishop of Exeter when the nave was lengthened and the aisles added.
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St Augustine's Church in Waimate. Mountfort's Gothic in wood, designed in 1872, has the campanile of a medieval cathedral in miniature, neighboured by the roof of a chateau, entered by the lychgate of an English parish church, all successfully harmonised into a New Zealand landscape. The Gothic revival style of architecture began to gain in popularity from the late 18th century as a romantic backlash against the more classical and formal styles which had predominated the previous two centuries.Lochhead 1999, "Introduction" At the age of 16, Mountfort acquired two books written by the Gothic revivalist Augustus Pugin: The True Principles of Christian or Pointed Architecture and An Apology for the Revival of Christian Architecture.
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The actual burialground was then demarked by a new wall with a lychgate separating it from the school ground and garden. Therefore, the cemetery has no direct access to a street, but is reached passing the site of the school. However, in order to enlarge the burialground again, once a shortage of gravesites would occur, Gobat – on the occasion of separating the school ground from the cemetery – recorded a pursuant clause protocolled by the British consulate.Gottfried Mehnert, see Bibliography for details, p. 8. Consul-General (1815–1882) aimed at dissolving the Anglican-Protestant ecumenical cemeterial community, however, the German Foreign Office and Bishop Gobat opposed him, the latter even threatening to resign if this cemeterial separation would lead to finally cancel the joint bishopric.
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The War Memorial attached to the churchyard In the churchyard near the lychgate is buried James Norman (c1844-1898),James Norman (1844–1898) on Ancestry.com – pay to view the sexton at the church and the inspiration for Reuben Dale in The Mighty Atom (1896) by Marie Corelli, written during her stay at the nearby Pack o' Cards inn.Teresa Ransom, 'The Mysterious Miss Marie Corelli: Queen of Victorian Bestsellers', Bulbeck Books (2013) – Google BooksPhotograph of James Norman as Reuben Dale – The National Archives The war memorial in the Garden of Remembrance attached to the churchyard is in the form of a cross and was designed by W C Willis and unveiled in 1921. It commemorates the dead of the village from both World Wars.
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The foundation stone was laid in August 1878 by the lord of the manor Rimington Wilson and the construction was completed in May 1879 by local builder John Brearley at a total cost of £7,200. The stained glass windows for the east and south walls were a gift from Rimington Wilson. The church was opened in June 1880 by William Thomson, Archbishop of York. A series of important changes were made to the church before the turn of the 20th century, a new organ was installed in July 1885, a new peal of eight bells was fitted in 1892 from the bellmakers John Taylor of Loughborough and in June 1897 a lychgate was erected to mark the diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria.
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Overlooking the village sits St. Michael and All Angels church in its current form, largely dating from the 15th Century. It is set in a neat church yard with an attractive 17th Century, thatched lychgate and a good view of Exeter. The village's other amenities include one pub, a primary/junior school rebuilt in 2006, popular pre-school – in a brand new building from September 2008 but still on the same site at Pinhoe School, doctor's surgery, several shops, an estate agency, sub Post Office, pharmacy, two Chinese takeaways, a cocktail bar, and two hairdressers. In November 2013, there was a proposal from a housing developer to destroy the village centre and create a large roundabout rather than the current joined mini-roundabouts.
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A south porch of unknown date has been converted into a vestry, and the church is now entered through the tower. St Mary's is a Grade I listed building, a national designation given to buildings of "exceptional, usually national, interest", in particular because it is regarded as "a fine rural parish church, incorporating significant early Medieval fabric". Writers in the 19th century commented on the "lofty square tower", the "very good" east window, and the "many elegant monuments"; the clergyman and antiquarian Harry Longueville Jones called St Mary's "one of the best specimens of an old parish church in the island". In the 21st century, one writer has noted the "impressive lychgate" and a guide to the buildings of the region calls it "the most important church in north west Anglesey".
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The churchwarden at the time was John Bolney, also a significant and wealthy landowner in the parish, whose family was long established in the area. Described as the "moving spirit" behind "an inspired community effort involving the whole village", he paid for the tower to be built and arranged for dozens of villagers to use their skills and any money they could offer to quarry the sandstone, cut and shape it, build temporary bridges and paths to transport the material to the church, build tools and wooden scaffolding, and erect the tall, structure at the west end of the church. The project was completed in 1538, and a new west doorway was inserted below John Bolney's coat of arms and the commemorative wording . The oak and Sussex Marble lychgate dates from 1905.
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Boulton St. Mary's Church The Anglican church, more usually called Boulton St. Mary's, Boulton St Mary's Website was built about the year 1150 by the Sacheverell family who were owners of the Manor of Boulton at that time.Notes on the Churches of Derbyshire Volume IV by Dr. J. Charles Cox, published 1882 Following a long period of dispute the church became a chapel of ease in 1281 to St. Peter's in Derby, this being brought about by the ambitions of the all-powerful abbot of Darley Abbey. The church is now within the Diocese of Derby. The lychgate which forms the main entrance to the churchyard on Boulton Lane is a war memorial to those of the parish who gave their lives in the Great War of 1914 to 1919.
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Lychgate as seen approaching from the Barton The 15th-century lych gate on the south side was rebuilt in 1901. It was designed by the Reverend R. M. Fulford to resemble as near as possible the original gate; the carved beams of the wooden structure were retained but all the rest was replaced. On the east side of the gate is a small chamber on the ground floor, whilst the upper floor is approached by a flight of steps. This room has been used variously to house two of the poor of the parish, as a changing room for the priest-in-charge when he came from Ashburton, as a meeting room by the Mothers Union, a meeting place for the Parochial Church Council, a venue for the youth club and as a cobbler's shop.
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From Norman times there was a manor here called Connerton which was the paramount manor of the hundred of Penwith. The lords of the manor were bailiffs of the hundred and they held courts and enjoyed the rights of wreck for the coast between Porthtowan and Prussia Cove at least so late as 1580. The importance of this manor may have derived from it being the seat of a Celtic prince in early times.Cornish Church Guide (1925) Truro: Blackford; p. 107 The current church was established further inland in the 15th-century but only a few fragments of this building remain incorporated in the lychgate of Edmund Sedding's church of 1866 (the tower however is the original one of the 15th century.) The Hundred of Penwith had its ancient centre at Connerton, now buried beneath the sands of Gwithian Towans.
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The title refers to the act of watching over the dead between the death and funeral, known as a wake. "Lyke" is an obsolete word meaning a corpse, and is related to the German word Leiche and the Dutch word lijk and the Norse lik and likvake / likvaka still existing in Norwegian and Swedish, all with the same meaning. It survives in modern English in the expression lychgate, the roofed gate at the entrance to a churchyard, where, in former times, a dead body was placed before burial, and the fictional undead monster type lich. "Lyke-wake" could also be from the Norse influence on the Yorkshire dialect: the contemporary Norwegian and Swedish words for "wake" are still "likvake" and "likvaka" respectively ("lik" and "vaka"/"vake" with the same meanings as previously described for "lyke" and "wake").
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8–10, 12. Over the years Christ Church underwent several renovations and refurbishments. In 1900 W. and J. Lamb architects from New York, with Vonnegut and Bohn of Indianapolis acting as supervising architects, renovated and redecorated the church at an approximate cost of $32,294. The architects deepened the chancel, added an exterior porch (lychgate), and designed a new parish house on the west end of the church.Stockton, p. 13. Another renovation took place in 1927, when the church's basement was excavated at a cost of $75,000 to create additional space underneath the building for educational and recreational use. Additional renovations took place in 1936. The church's interior and its parish house were refurbished in 1954 at an estimated cost of $300,000 to replace the redecoration made in 1900 because it was incongruent with the church's English Gothic architecture.
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Inside the church is a 500-year-old font with shields showing the lion and the fleur-de-lys of England and France, the keys of Peter and the swords of Paul, the arms of the see of Norwich (the church is within the Anglican Diocese of Norwich), and the emblem of the Trinity. A memorial in the church to William Newman tells us that in thanks for the kindness shown to him when he was brought up here as a poor London boy in the 18th century he left £500 to the poor of Kettlestone forever. The lychgate is a 20th-century memorial to James Cory, rector of Kettlestone for 68 years until his death in 1864, who is buried in the churchyard. He began as rector in 1796, and hence was preaching during the French Revolution, Trafalgar and Waterloo, the Crimean War and the Indian Mutiny.
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At the west of the nave is a flat-painted tub font, perhaps Romanesque and possibly 18th-century. At the nave north wall against the chancel arch is a 20-century pulpit. Wall memorial tablets date from 1756 to 1816. The church lychgate, evident in 1932, was probably 17th century."Grendon Bishop", British History Online, quoting An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire, Volume 2, East (London, 1932), pp. 83-85. Retrieved 29 October 2019"St John the Baptist, Grendon Bishop, Herefordshire", The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. 29 October 2019 The church is under the care of the Herefordshire Historic Churches Trust, and is in the Bredenbury with Grendon Bishop and Wacton parish of the Deanery of Bromyard and the Diocese of Hereford."Grendon Bishop", Herefordshire Historic Churches Trust. 29 October 2019"Grendon Bishop & Wacton: St John The Baptist, HR7 4TH", Diocese of Hereford. Retrieved 31 October 2019"Grendon Bishop & Wacton: St John the Baptist", The Church of England.
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To date it has not been possible to identify who was responsible for this work. Based on drawings prepared by architects Job & Collins the upper floor was accessed by an internal stairwell from the existing eastern wing of the house. The 1927 sewerage plan shows Lochiel much as it is today although at this time the land holding still extended through to Dickson Terrace. The plan shows the small shed, garages (believed to be former stables) to the north west of the site, lychgate, and several other unidentified structures. In the 1930s half of the land holding (fronting Dickson Terrace) was reconfigured into three blocks – subs 1 and 2 with frontage to Dickson Terrace; sub 3 with a narrow frontage to Toorak Road. None of these blocks were sold but remained (as required by Cameron's will) as part of the administered estate of John Samuel Cameron although sub 1 was leased from 1936 to one of the Cameron sons, John Griffiths Cameron.
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The Worth and High Street conservation areas also reflect the importance of the ancient features, buildings, townscapes and open space which survive from the medieval era and earlier in those parts of the borough. Worth's church, St Nicholas', is a "remarkable example of a pre- Conquest building" with a 10th- or 11th-century cruciform layout and apsidal east end. On the approach to it are 17th-century buildings of traditional local materials such as Street House (a former inn) and a timber-and-stone lychgate. Several other old houses, a moat and ancient trees contribute to the setting of the village, which until the late 20th century was still rural and isolated but which has now been surrounded by urban development (including, at close quarters, the M23 motorway). Crawley High Street, the natural halfway point between London and the fashionable seaside resort of Brighton, has been important since King John granted a charter for a weekly market there in 1202. No buildings of that antiquity survive, but St John the Baptist's Church (part of the High Street conservation area, although set back along a narrow path) has 14th-century fabric.
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