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Harborough District Council Local List of Non-Designated Heritage Assets
Do you think the initial 16 entries on the list reflect the varied heritage of the Harborough district?
Representation ID: 8268
Received: 08/07/2021
Respondent: KIBWORTH HARCOURT Parish Council
No. You have not included any from the villages that had a BBC TV series about them - the Kibworth parishes - Kibworth Harcourt, Kibworth Beauchamp and Smeeton Westerby. Despite there being many listed buildings in these villages there are additional heritage buildings that should be included e.g. Lychgate at entrance to cemetery on A6 in Kibworth Harcourt that was built and completed in 1894.
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Harborough District Council Local List of Non-Designated Heritage Assets
Do you know any additional historical information that could be added to any of the 16 heritage assets?
Representation ID: 8285
Received: 08/07/2021
Respondent: KIBWORTH HARCOURT Parish Council
1. The full address of the heritage asset you wish to nominate, including the parish in which it is located – if it is a remote site you may wish to include a map. The Lychgate, Kibworth Cemetery, A6 Harborough Road, Kibworth Harcourt
2. Date of construction – if you don't have the precise date please provide an approximate date. Construction may have been in phases so provide as much detail as possible. 1894 by Edward Mason
3. The original purpose for which the site was constructed and how it is used today. Lychgate means corpse entrance, so coffins or shrouded bodies were brought by the sexton on a hand drawn cart (or bier) from one of the three churches in the Kibworths (Congregational, Methodist or St Wilfrid’s Anglican) to rest inside the building until the interment took place. There are benches inside the Lychgate for mourners or funeral staff. It is no longer used for this purpose, so has been locked up for a number of years, but has recently had electricity connected for lighting and is being considered as a local small museum and meeting place for the Kibworth Joint Burial Board.
4. Reasons for your nomination – not all the assessment criteria apply to all heritage assets, but please tell us how your nomination meets the criteria. If you have an historical or contemporary written record to support your nomination, please include it or provide the reference details so that we can look at it. A lychgate building of this size and quality is quite rare and the Burial Board have an ecclesiastical, architectural survey being carried out in July 2021.
5. Please attach an exterior photograph of your nomination. 2 attached – one exterior, and 1 interior.
