Lych Gate to St James's Churchyard is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1984. Lych gate.

Lych Gate to St James's Churchyard

WRENN ID
veiled-vestry-nightshade
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire West and Chester
Constituency
Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 August 1984
Type
Lych gate
Address
Lych Gate to St James's Churchyard, Pepper Street, Christleton
OS grid reference
SJ 440 656
Coordinates
53.18532, -2.83804
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The lych gate to St. James's Churchyard was built around 1885 by William Butterfield in memory of Harriet Garnett. It features a combination of ashlar red sandstone and timber framing, topped with a Welsh slate roof and a red tile ridge. The structure has a rectangular plan with gabled stone side walls that are coped and finialled, and these walls include slight buttresses and two trefoil-headed openings. The roof is supported by three arch-braced timber trusses that spring from stone corbels, with the central truss displaying a carved memorial inscription. The lych gate also includes simple yet substantial wooden gates that are fitted with iron strap hinges.

Local climate

Lych Gate to St James's Churchyard 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 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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