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Lychgate approximately 40 metres west of Dorchester Abbey

A Grade II Listed Building in Dorchester, Oxfordshire

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Latitude: 51.6438 / 51°38'37"N

Longitude: -1.1653 / 1°9'54"W

OS Eastings: 457856

OS Northings: 194220

OS Grid: SU578942

Mapcode National: GBR 90F.S8D

Mapcode Global: VHCY8.RYB7

Plus Code: 9C3WJRVM+GV

Entry Name: Lychgate approximately 40 metres west of Dorchester Abbey

Listing Date: 14 May 1986

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1286061

English Heritage Legacy ID: 248082

ID on this website: 101286061

Location: Dorchester, South Oxfordshire, OX10

County: Oxfordshire

District: South Oxfordshire

Civil Parish: Dorchester

Built-Up Area: Dorchester

Traditional County: Oxfordshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Oxfordshire

Church of England Parish: Dorchester

Church of England Diocese: Oxford

Tagged with: Lychgate

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DORCHESTER
HIGH STREET (East side)
Lychgate approximately 40m. west of Dorchester Abbey

GV
II

Lychgate. 1867. Oak frame on limestone ashlar plinth; shingle roof. Heavy framework has two moulded arch-braced trusses plus two intermediate arched trusses of lesser scantling. Sides have open cusped arcading with carved foliage spandrels. Curved raking shores rest on projecting sill plates to all sides. Roof projects to front and rear on curved brackets and has scalloped, moulded and carved bargeboards.

Date is included in commemorative inscription on inner faces of main trusses but noted as designed by W. Butterfield c.1852-3 (Pevsner/Sherwood). Sir G.G. Scott was restoring the church in 1867.

One of a fine group of buildings near the Abbey.

(Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p.583; regarding attribution see also Warwick Rodwell, Dorchester Abbey Oxfordshire, Oxbow Books, 2009, p. 198).

Listing NGR: SU5785594219

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