Lychgate, Church of Saint Martin is a Grade II listed building in the Trafford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1985. Lychgate.
Lychgate, Church of Saint Martin
- WRENN ID
- rough-passage-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Trafford
- Constituency
- Altrincham and Sale West MP: Mr Connor Rand (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 July 1985
- Type
- Lychgate
- Address
- Lychgate, Church of Saint Martin, Church Lane
- OS grid reference
- SJ 772 929
- Coordinates
- 53.43309, -2.34365
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lychgate at the Church of Saint Martin was built in 1887 by George Truefitt for Sir Williams Cunliffe Brooks. It features a brick plinth and a timber frame topped with a clay tile roof. The structure has a square plan with a dogleg passage. Two sides are adorned with large semi-circular timber arches, while the other two sides are vertically studded. All sides have pierced roundel bands just below the eaves, and the roof is pyramidal in shape. The lychgate is completed with cast iron gates.
Local climate
Lychgate, Church of Saint Martin 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 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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