Lychgate to Church of St Peter is a Grade II listed building in the Salford local planning authority area, England. Lychgate.
Lychgate to Church of St Peter
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Salford
- Constituency
- Worsley and Eccles MP: Michael Wheeler (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Lychgate
- Address
- Lychgate to Church of St Peter, Chorley Road
- OS grid reference
- SD 775 017
- Coordinates
- 53.5122, -2.34055
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lychgate to the Church of St. Peter is a war memorial built around 1920. It is constructed from ashlar stone and features a slate roof in the Gothic Revival style. The lychgate has moulded pointed-arched entrances and angled corner buttresses that contain statues in cusped niches. Each side includes a 5-light window with cusped heads. The front and rear gables display a crucifix and a statue with a cusped canopy, along with texts from the Old and New Testaments. Inside, rolls of honour are carved into the masonry.
Local climate
Lychgate to Church of St Peter sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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