Lychgate at Christ Church is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1987. A C20 Lychgate.
Lychgate at Christ Church
- WRENN ID
- dusk-ashlar-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oldham
- Constituency
- Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton MP: Jim McMahon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1987
- Type
- Lychgate
- Address
- Lychgate at Christ Church, Block Lane
- OS grid reference
- SD 908 040
- Coordinates
- 53.53315, -2.13882
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lychgate at Christ Church was built in 1913 and features a clay tile roof supported by timber posts on rock-faced stone dwarf walls. The dwarf wall is inscribed with the words "erected in memory of Alfred Butterworth." The structure includes a bratticed tie-beam truss with Tudor-arched braces and cusped arches between the vertical members. Two of these trusses form the gables, and there are square posts at each corner, topped with a cross finial. This lychgate is included for its group value.
Local climate
Lychgate at Christ Church sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% 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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