Lych Gate and Attached Churchyard Wall to South of Church of St Mary Magdalene is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 April 1987. Lych gate.

Lych Gate and Attached Churchyard Wall to South of Church of St Mary Magdalene

WRENN ID
proud-joist-rowan
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Northumberland
Constituency
Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 April 1987
Type
Lych gate
Address
Lych Gate and Attached Churchyard Wall to South of Church of St Mary Magdalene, Mitford
OS grid reference
NZ 169 855
Coordinates
55.16411, -1.73621
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The lych gate and attached churchyard wall to the south of the Church of St. Mary Magdalene were built in 1889. The lych gate is constructed from tooled-and-margined stone with ashlar dressings, featuring an oak upper frame and a red-tiled roof. It has a square stone structure with two small double-chamfered Tudor-arched lights on either side. Sloped buttresses frame the central two-centred timber arches, which rest on moulded stone corbels and include cusped panels with an ihc monogram in the spandrels. The tie-beam is brattished and features an inscription and panel tracery above, all under trefoiled ogee bargeboards. The eaves are swept, and there is a wrought-iron cross fleury on the ridge. The double gates have fleur-de-lys standards and elaborate finials, while the collar rafter roof displays the date and initials J.P.0.M. (Colonel John Philip Osbaldeston-Mitford) on the rafter feet.

The wall sweeps in on either side of the gate and has steeply-chamfered coping, with railings that match the design of the gate. At each end of the wall, there are tall gabled piers, along with a similar short right return.

Local climate

Lych Gate and Attached Churchyard Wall to South of Church of St Mary Magdalene receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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