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Latitude: 51.1344 / 51°8'3"N
Longitude: -3.0902 / 3°5'24"W
OS Eastings: 323818
OS Northings: 137799
OS Grid: ST238377
Mapcode National: GBR M1.8YRF
Mapcode Global: VH7DG.DR67
Plus Code: 9C3R4WM5+QW
Entry Name: War Memorial Lych Gate
Listing Date: 18 October 2016
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1438247
ID on this website: 101438247
Location: St Mary's Church, Charlynch, Somerset, TA5
County: Somerset
District: Sedgemoor
Civil Parish: Spaxton
Traditional County: Somerset
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Somerset
Tagged with: War memorial Lychgate
A churchyard lych gate, erected c1945.
A churchyard lych gate, erected c1945.
MATERIALS: timber-frame construction with a plain tiled roof and stone rubble flank walls to its lower body.
DESCRIPTION: the lych gate is situated to the SW of the former Church of St Mary (closed in 1981). The timber superstructure has square corner uprights which rest on the stone flank walls. The W and E gabled ends are similar, with arched braces to the corner posts which support slender tie beams. The roof comprises king post trusses, angled struts and queen posts. The tie beam to the W gabled end has the inscription 1939 ERECTED BY THE PARISH AS A THANKSGIVING 1945, and the eastern tie beam is inscribed HE BROUGHT THEM OUT SAFELY. There is a pair of low wooden gates to the W gabled end, and there are freestanding wooden benches inside the lych gate.
This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Online. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 23 November 2017.
The lych gate at the entrance to St Mary’s Church in Charlynch was erected in 1945 in thanksgiving for the end of the Second World War. The church itself closed and was deconsecrated in the late C20.
The memorial lych gate in Charlynch is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* Historic interest: as an eloquent witness to the tragic impact of world events on the local community during the Second World War;
* Architectural interest: as an accomplished and well-realised memorial which takes the form of a churchyard lych gate;
* Group value: with the Church of St Mary which is listed at Grade I.
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