Lych Gate to St Marks Church is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 July 1998. Lych gate.
Lych Gate to St Marks Church
- WRENN ID
- leaning-entrance-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 July 1998
- Type
- Lych gate
- Address
- Lych Gate to St Marks Church, Hough Green
- OS grid reference
- SJ 389 650
- Coordinates
- 53.1793, -2.91521
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lych gate to St Mark's Church was built around 1920, funded by Mr and Mrs Dent of Curzon House, Chester, to celebrate the safe return of their sons, Captain RWF Dent and Lieutenant HA Dent, from the Great War (1914-1919). It is constructed of squared snecked red sandstone with ashlar dressings and features oak framing and a stone-slate roof. The gate includes a pair of panelled oak gates on wrought-iron hinges. The wall-plates, particularly the one on the left (north-east), are inscribed. The outer gable has a camber-beam supported by shaped brackets and two quatrefoil-braced panels. Each side of the gate-chamber has four intermediate posts and tension braces, while the inner gable displays a king post expressed as the Cross.
Local climate
Lych Gate to St Marks Church receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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