Memorial

Needham Market Burial ground - Lychgate

Needham Market Cemetery Lych gate

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Current Location

Entrance to the burial ground, Saint John The Baptist Burial Ground, Barratts Lane, Needham Market, Mid Suffolk, Suffolk, IP6 8BS, England

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TM 08308 54922

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Memorial Details

Type of Memorial: Gate
WMR Reference Number: 108767
Description: A lych gate with a brick base, timber screen above and a pitched roof. Entrance is through a pair of low timber gates with arched openings and slatted panels. Rising from the base, a series of timber posts form a screen of trefoil-arched openings along either side. The roof is supported by box-framed gable trusses, with arching tie-beams, the front one of which, has a dedication incised and picked out in white. The gable barge boards have quatrefoil piercings at their feet. Internally, there are fixed timber benches with boarded backs along either side, and a tiled floor. Two tablets, one on either brick base front face, record the details of the restoration of the lych gate in 1995.
Inscription: Left hand entrance tablet: THIS RESTORATION/ WAS CARRIED OUT AS A TRIBUTE/ TO THE LIFE AND WORK OF/ GEOFFREY BURTON/ 1922-1994/ Roof Tie beam: IN MEMORIAM / 1914 / 1918/ Right hand entrance tablet: THIS LYCH GATE/ WAS REFURBISHED IN 1995/ ON THE 50th ANNIVERSARY/ OF THE ENDING OF WORLD WAR II/ IN HONOUR OF THOSE WHO/ SERVED - SUFFERED - DIED/ IN ORDER/ TO PRESERVE OUR FREEDOM

Commemoration

War: First World War (1914-1918)

War: Second World War (1939-1945)

History

Maker(s)
Maintenance History: 1995 - Refurbished

Ceremonies

Unveiled

17 April 1921

Brigadier-General S E Massey-Lloyd, parishioners, local clergy

Conservation

Custodian: PCC

Components

Gate

Made from: Brick

Condition: Good

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Needham Market Burial ground - Lychgate

Current Location

OS Grid Reference

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Memorial Details

Commemoration

History

Ceremonies

Conservation

Components

Needham Market Burial ground - Lychgate

Current Location

OS Grid Reference

Names listed on this memorial

Contribute to the War Memorials Register

Memorial Details

Commemoration

History

Ceremonies

Conservation

Components

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