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Latitude: 54.6525 / 54°39'9"N
Longitude: -1.6668 / 1°40'0"W
OS Eastings: 421594
OS Northings: 528654
OS Grid: NZ215286
Mapcode National: GBR JGSM.YZ
Mapcode Global: WHC58.CBH4
Plus Code: 9C6WM83M+27
Entry Name: Churchyard Wall and Railings to Church of St Andrew, Lych Gates and Grave Covers
Listing Date: 23 May 1994
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1209035
English Heritage Legacy ID: 385638
ID on this website: 101209035
Location: South Church, County Durham, DL14
County: County Durham
Electoral Ward/Division: Woodhouse Close
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Bishop Auckland
Traditional County: Durham
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): County Durham
Church of England Parish: Bishop Auckland
Church of England Diocese: Durham
Tagged with: Churchyard wall Railing Lychgate
BISHOP AUCKLAND
NZ22NW CROWN STREET, South Church
634-1/5/141 (East side)
Churchyard wall & railings to Church
of St Andrew, lych gates & grave
covers
GV II
Walls and railings around churchyard of St Andrew, with lych
gates at N and SE, gates at S, and medieval grave covers at S.
Wall of mixed construction incorporating medieval fabric and
C17 brick coping. N part rebuilt and railings added late C19.
N lych gate c1893 to W G Selwyn, priest; SE lych gate c1888 to
H J Trotter. Rubble wall, with lych gates, N with synthetic
tile roof, S with stone slate roof. Ashlar gate piers. Cast-
and wrought-iron railings. Plan a long triangle with rounded S
end, where wall is retaining wall. N section has spear-headed
railings, many damaged. Lych gate at N of very high quality
with substantial pegged construction, and long inscriptions
carved in beams; similar gate at SE. S gate piers square,
ashlar, with low pyramidal coping. Wall is of rubble
construction and ramped up to gate piers. On ramped section,
medieval coped grave covers have been set as coping flanking
piers. Medieval relieving arch to left of gate, half-way up
wall below ground level of churchyard.
Listing NGR: NZ2159428654
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