Millennium Lychgate
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CLIENT Confidential
LOCATION Church Preen, West Midlands
CONSTRUCTION VALUE Confidential
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Civic Trust Award 2001 – Winner
Shrewsbury and Atcham Borough Council Design and Heritage Award 2001 – Winner
A self-build project to mark the Millennium
The outline design for this project was prepared before being developed into working drawings by PCC member Roy Torkington.
A small working party undertook the construction of the lychgate, with occasional assistance from a craftsman mason, and under a watching brief by the architects.
The oak was sourced in Herefordshire and stored ‘in stick’ in the church warden's barn to season, which also provided the workshop in which the oak members were prefabricated prior to assembly on site.