Lych Gate to Church of St Mungo is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 July 1987. Lych gate.
Lych Gate to Church of St Mungo
- WRENN ID
- quartered-pier-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 July 1987
- Type
- Lych gate
- Address
- Lych Gate to Church of St Mungo, the Green, Simonburn
- OS grid reference
- NY 871 735
- Coordinates
- 55.0566, -2.20293
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lych gate to the Church of St. Mungo, dated 1885, was designed by R.J. Johnson in memory of Lancelot J.H. Allgood. It is constructed from ashlar sandstone and features a stone-flagged roof with a square plan. The gate has four gabled faces, each with angle buttresses and double-chamfered pointed arches. The front arch, which is under a hoodmould, has a moulded outer order decorated with nailhead and engaged colonnettes. The gable displays a relief of a cross slab and is inscribed with the following text:
To the Glory of God In memory of Lancelot John Hunter Allgood of Nunwick Esq. This gate is erected by his Kindred, Friends and Tenants A.D. 1885
The gate has a steeply-pitched cross-gabled roof, with stone water spouts that project diagonally at the corners of the eaves. The inner order of the arch facing the churchyard is inscribed in Gothic letters:
TILL THE DAY BREAKS AND THE SHADOWS FLEE AWAY.
The side walls feature moulded coping and stone benches on their inner faces. Inside, there is an octapartite stone vault with chamfered ribs.
Local climate
Lych Gate to Church of St Mungo receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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