Lychgate c. 40 M W of Dorchester Abbey Dorchester, England
Listed Building Data
Lychgate c. 40 M W of Dorchester Abbey has been designated a Grade II listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1286061
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II
- Date Listed
- 14 May 1986
- Name
- LYCHGATE APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES WEST OF DORCHESTER ABBEY
- Location
- LYCHGATE APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES WEST OF DORCHESTER ABBEY, HIGH STREET
- Parish
- Dorchester
- District
- South Oxfordshire
- County
- Oxfordshire
- Grid Reference
- SU 57856 94219
- Easting
- 457855.7090
- Northing
- 194219.3550
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
DORCHESTER HIGH STREET SU5794 (East side) 5/53 Lychgate approx. 40m. W of Dorchester Abbey
GV II
Lychgate. 1867. Oak frame on limestone ashlar plinth; shingle roof. Heavy framework has 2 moulded arch-braced trusses plus 2 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).
Listing NGR: SU5785594219
