Late 16th or early 17th century lych gate or gatehouse, leading to the medieval Cotswold Parish Church of St Peter and St Paul at Long Compton, Warwickshire, England. This lych gate was once a cottage and may have housed a priest, but in the early 20th century was the home and shop of the village cobbler. It still has a room at first floor level.
Parish Church of St Peter and St Paul, Long Compton, in the Warwickshire Cotswolds, England: thatched 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. 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 Cotswolds, England
Photo credit: © Terence Kerr / Alamy / Afripics
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