Lych Gate West of Church of St. Cuthbert is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1988. Memorial.

Lych Gate West of Church of St. Cuthbert

WRENN ID
blind-brick-summer
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
City of Durham MP: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 March 1988
Type
Memorial
Address
Lych Gate West of Church of St. Cuthbert, North Road, City of Durham
OS grid reference
NZ 267 431
Coordinates
54.78232, -1.58571
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The lych gate located west of the Church of St. Cuthbert is a war memorial dated 1918. It is constructed from coursed squared sandstone with a wooden upper section and features a Welsh slate roof. The gate has chamfered coping on its stepped walls, which lean forward, and on the side walls of the gateway. The wooden panelled upper part supports a gable that has the date carved on a beam above a two-centred arch. The structure includes carved spandrels and bargeboards. The roof is steeply pitched with swept eaves, and the wooden gates curve upwards at the sides. Inside, there are wooden benches.

Local climate

Lych Gate West of Church of St. Cuthbert receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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