Description

SW 5130
4/39

MARAZION
ST MICHAEL'S MOUNT
The cemetery lych gate and adjoining cemetery walls

GV
II
Lychgate and garden walls. Built in 1889 as memorial to Sir Edward St Aubyn and Emma his wife for their seven children. Granite ashlar with granite dressings and corbelled granite roof with gable ends. Iron gates.

Plan: square plan with doorways north and south, central coffin rest and side benches. Corner buttresses. Gothic style. Cemetery walls adjoin set back to left and at right angles (approximately) to the south west corner and enclose a rectangular cemetery.

Exterior: similar gable ends north and south: the north entrance gable end has double-chamfered two-centred arch over chamfered responds; above the doorway an arched niche with statue. Hoodmoulds. The gable coping is surmounted by a Celtic cross; each gable is flanked by integral weathered buttresses and there are projecting weathered buttresses with cusped gablets on either side of the doorway. Cobbled forecourt in front with dressed granite border. Horizontally-coursed granite ashlar cemetery walls with roll-moulded granite copings. The wall steps up to follow the slope of the land.

Listing NGR: SW5155530052

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26453576

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Recommended Books

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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)