Lychgate and West Wall of St Peter's Churchyard is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 April 1967. A Georgian Lychgate.
Lychgate and West Wall of St Peter's Churchyard
- WRENN ID
- sharp-granite-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Macclesfield MP: Tim Roca (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 April 1967
- Type
- Lychgate
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Lychgate and West Wall of St Peter's Churchyard, the Village, Prestbury, SK10 4DG
- OS grid reference
- SJ 900 769
- Coordinates
- 53.28945, -2.15108
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lychgate and west wall of St Peter's Churchyard, located in Prestbury, were originally dated 1715 but were re-erected in 1728, with walls added in 1765. Constructed from buff sandstone with a Kerridge stone-slate roof and stone ridge, the lychgate has a rectangular shape with solid side walls and clasping end pilasters. Its stone-coped gabled roof features crocketted pinnacles. Inside, there are two plaques: one on the south side states, "This Building was Erected Ano Dom 1715 Robert Brough, Richard Sandbach, George Taylor, Nathaniel Bunnel Church Wardens," while the north plaque reads, "This Portal was removed and newly Erected & the Stone Walk adjoining laid & the Hearse House Built Anno Dom.1728 Saml.Harryman, Thos. Mottershead, Adam Slack, Edmund Massey Church Wardens." The lychgate now includes a pair of 20th-century wooden gates. Ashlar walls extend from either side of the lychgate, topped with rounded coping. There are gateways near each end, accessed by flights of four sweeping steps, and simple gate piers, although the original gates are no longer present.
Local climate
Lychgate and West Wall of St Peter's Churchyard sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% 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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