Late 16th or early 17th century cottage, undercut to form a lych gate that leads to the medieval Cotswold Parish Church of St Peter and St Paul at Long Compton, Warwickshire, England.
Parish Church of St Peter and St Paul, Long Compton, in the Warwickshire Cotswolds, England: lych gate with squared coursed limestone, timber framing and ‘nogging’, that is brick infill between the timbers. This late 16th or early 17th century building was for most of its life the end of a row of terraced cottages before being undercut to form a lych gate. It functioned as a shop and private residence before being given to the church in 1964. Other cottages in the row were demolished in the 1920s. The brick infill dates from the early 20th century. St Peter and St Paul, an Anglican church in the Diocese of Coventry, is the largest of seven churches in the South Warwickshire Benefice. It is a largely 1200s AD building, of coursed limestone rubble. The nave is the oldest part of the church. The chancel was rebuilt in the late 1200s or early 1300s, and the north aisle around 1300. The nave roof was raised to add a clerestory in the 1400s.
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Location: Parish Church of St Peter and St Paul, Long Compton, Warwickshire, England, UK
Photo credit: © Terence Kerr / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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