Lychgate St Oswald's Churchyard is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 August 1986. Lychgate.

Lychgate St Oswald's Churchyard

WRENN ID
dark-chancel-mallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire West and Chester
Constituency
Tatton MP: Esther McVey (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 August 1986
Type
Lychgate
Address
Lychgate St Oswald's Churchyard, the Cobbles, Nether Peover
OS grid reference
SJ 742 741
Coordinates
53.26366, -2.38703
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The lychgate to St. Oswald's Churchyard, built around 1896, features an oak frame with a gabled tile roof. Each gable is supported by posts with curved braces that connect to monolithic sandstone plinths and tie-beams. This structure is part of a charming group of buildings surrounding the churchyard, which adds to its overall significance.

Local climate

Lychgate St Oswald's Churchyard sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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