Listed Building: LYCHGATE AND QUADRANT WALLS, ABOUT 40 METRES SOUTH OFF CHURCH OF ST MARY (1320048)
Grade | II |
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Authority | |
Volume/Map/Item | 1351, 14, 58 |
Date assigned | 22 June 1989 |
Date last amended |
Description
FRITTENDEN HIGH STREET TQ 8040-8140 (north west side)
14/58 Lychgate and quadrant walls, about 40 metres south off Church of St Mary GV II Lychgate with quadrant walls attached. Circa 1916, as a memorial to Captain R E Inglis. timber framed with plain tiled roof with lower walls of Wealden sand- stone. Two bay side frame to lychgate with chamfered and braced main posts supporting embattled tie-beams, with enriched and cusped four-centred arched knee braces. Queen post roof with moulded bargeboards and swept-out eaves. Foliate cross over southern gable. Central tie beam inscribed to Captain Rupert Edward Inglis, D.1916 at the Somme. Simple half-panelled side pieces with open upper panels with cusped and pendanted tracery. Cusped double carriage gates, with smaller pedestrian gate hung from adjacent wall pier. The quadrant walls extend southwards from the pinnacled wall piers of the (mid C19 churchyard wall (by R C Hussey) between which is the lychgate. The walls are about 4 feet in height, extending some 25 yards in ...... curves and enclosing a paved court- yard. High quality early C20 design and craftmanship in an interesting mid C19 group of Church and houses by R C Hussey (c.1846-8).
Listing NGR: TQ8133240900
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Sources (1)
- SKE16160 Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.
Location
Grid reference | TQ 8133 4090 (point) |
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Map sheet | TQ84SW |
Civil Parish | FRITTENDEN, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT |
Related Monuments/Buildings (1)
Record last edited
Nov 16 2006 5:21PM