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© Mr Peter Jackson
IoE Number:
302947
Location:
LYCHGATE TO NORTH OF CHURCH,
CUCKFIELD, MID SUSSEX, WEST SUSSEX
Photographer:
Mr Peter Jackson
Date Photographed:
30 August 2007
Date listed:
11 December 1987
Date of last amendment:
11 December 1987
Grade
II
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TQ 3024 NW CUCKFIELD
7/35 Lychgate to north of
Church
GV II
Lychgate. Dated 1893 by C E Kempe who lived at Lindfield (qv Old Place, Lindfield
High Street). Timber-framed with pagoda-shaped Horsham stone slab roof with iron
cross finial. Supported on 6 square piers forming 4 arches with spandrels having
Tudor rose, other floral and JHS mottoes. Text in frieze facing Church Street,
'There remaineth therefore a rest for the people of God'. Inside there is an
inscription 'To the glory of God and in thanksgiving for the beautiful life of
Caroline Emily Maberley her children dedicate this lychgate, Anno Domini 1893'.
One of a pair of lychgates in this churchyard, which is a great rarity.