Description

TQ 56 43 BIDBOROUGH HIGH STREET (east side)

11/6 South lychgate to the Church
of St Lawrence including
3 flights of stone steps and
the churchyard wall to the
north east

GV II

Lychgate, stone steps and churchyard wall. Lychgate 1879 (date plaque),
churchyard steps and boundary wall probably C18. Timber lychgate with a peg-
tile roof, freestone steps and wall.

The lychgate is in the small square at the end of Bidborough High Street. An
openwork timber structure with straight braces and bargeboards supports a
gabled roof above a pair of rustic timber gates with diagonal braces. 3
flights of stone steps, 2 within the churchyard and the coped stone wall to
the north east are probably of stone quarried immediately east of the
lychgate.

Crucial to the setting of the church, which is sited high above the square on
a small spur.

A copy of a painting, in the National Monuments Record, shows the churchyard
path and steps before the lychgate was built.

National Monuments Record.

Listing NGR: TQ5649843162

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26541015

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Recommended Books

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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)