Lychgate at Aston Burial Ground is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 May 1986. Lychgate.
Lychgate at Aston Burial Ground
- WRENN ID
- hidden-lantern-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 May 1986
- Type
- Lychgate
- Address
- Lychgate at Aston Burial Ground, Wrenbury Road, Newhall
- OS grid reference
- SJ 610 468
- Coordinates
- 53.01717, -2.58193
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lychgate at Aston Burial Ground is a war memorial built around 1919. It features a timber frame set on a brick base and has a slate roof. The side walls include double gates, and the road-facing front has corner posts with a cross section. The jowled tops of the posts are inscribed with "1914" on the left and "1918" on the right, supporting a cambered tie-beam that reads "IN MEMORY OF THE FALLEN HEROES OF THE GREAT WAR." Above are S-shaped braces and decorated bargeboards.
On the rear, there is a similar design, with a bressumer inscribed "UNRIGHTEOUS TO FORGET" and the inner face bearing the inscription "THEY DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE." Inside, on the left and right above the brick side walls, are wooden tablets. The left tablet is inscribed with "BROOMHALL/SOUND/NEWHALL/SMEETON" followed by a list of 13 names. The right tablet reads "REMEMBRANCE/DUTY/PATRIOTISM/TRUTH/FREEDOM/FAITH/SACRIFICE/LOVE/IMMORTALITY." The lower brick walls have stone quoins at the rear, and the top features a chamfered coping.
Local climate
Lychgate at Aston Burial Ground receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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