Lych Gate to Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 October 1987. Lych gate.
Lych Gate to Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- idle-gable-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 October 1987
- Type
- Lych gate
- Address
- Lych Gate to Church of St Mary, Hutton Magna
- OS grid reference
- NZ 126 124
- Coordinates
- 54.50743, -1.8057
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lych gate to the Church of St. Mary serves as a memorial for the 1914-18 War and was designed by Thompson of Kilburn. It features an oak structure set on a base of roughly-squared stone with tooled dressings and is topped with a stone slate roof. The low walls, which have swept coping, support a timber frame. The gabled front has a Tudor arch adorned with carved spandrels, and there is a single gate with shaped stiles and arch braces in front of the rails. The sides include open-traceried panels beneath brattished tie-beams. The gable is decorated with vertical studding and moulded bargeboards on corbels, topped with a cross finial. The rear elevation is similar to the front. The sides also feature open-traceried panels, with a memorial plaque located on the south side. Inside, the roof is scissor-braced, and the area within and in front of the gate is paved with patterned cobbles and slabs.
Local climate
Lych Gate to Church of St Mary receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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