Description

SE 37 NE BALDERSBY WIDE HOWE LANE
(north side)
Baldersby St James
3/22 Lych gate to Church of
26.5.71 St James
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GV I

Lych gate. 1856-58. By William Butterfield for Viscount Downe of
Baldersby Park. High Victorian style. Snecked stone with red brick
bands to side walls, and stone buttresses. Wooden gates. Timber-framed
archways and roof structure. Tile roof. Square on plan, timber posts
on stylobates divide gateway into a wide and a narrow opening between
the stone flanking walls, with a double and a single gate.
Approximately 4 metres wide in all. Gates are of vertical bars,
1.2 metres tall, alternating with shorter bars. Top edges finished off
with hollow chamfers and blunt ends. Horizontal bars on inner surface,
original iron strap and clasp hinges and handles, also iron spikes in
fleur-de-lis design.

Listing NGR: SE3660876918

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17538237

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Recommended Books

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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)