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Latitude: 51.2095 / 51°12'34"N
Longitude: -2.6909 / 2°41'27"W
OS Eastings: 351834
OS Northings: 145817
OS Grid: ST518458
Mapcode National: GBR ML.442K
Mapcode Global: VH89R.9VSN
Plus Code: 9C3V6855+RJ
Entry Name: Lych gate at entrance to churchyard of Church of St Matthew
Listing Date: 29 January 1987
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1058581
English Heritage Legacy ID: 268177
ID on this website: 101058581
Location: St Matthew's Church, Wookey, Somerset, BA5
County: Somerset
District: Mendip
Civil Parish: Wookey
Built-Up Area: Wookey
Traditional County: Somerset
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Somerset
Tagged with: Lychgate
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WOOKEY CP
HIGH STREET (south side)
Lych gate at entrance to churchyard of Church of St Matthew
GV
II
Lych gate designed by F. Bligh Bond and built by Pittards of Langport. It was dedicated in January 1916 and was donated by Miss Badcock in memory of her sister. Rubble plinths with dressed freestone cappings, oak superstructure, shingled roof with bellcast and wheel-cross finials. Medieval style. Massive superstructure with four-rain posts, archbracing, bridging beams, roof ridge at right angles to frontage; ends of exposed beams carved with grotesque masks.
Bridging beam to frontage with inscription:- *MORS IANVA VITAE". Gates.
Listing NGR: ST5183445817
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