Lychgate to Church of St James is a Grade II listed building in the West Lancashire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 March 1993. Lychgate.
Lychgate to Church of St James
- WRENN ID
- long-iron-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Lancashire
- Constituency
- West Lancashire MP: Ashley Dalton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 March 1993
- Type
- Lychgate
- Address
- Lychgate to Church of St James, Vicarage Lane
- OS grid reference
- SD 436 071
- Coordinates
- 53.55805, -2.85249
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lychgate to the Church of St James is a structure dated 189[] located on Vicarage Lane in Westhead, Ormskirk. It is built of sandstone, featuring some timber-framing and a hipped stone slate roof. The lychgate has a rectangular plan with high stone side walls topped by the sills of a short timber frame that includes arch-bracing, supporting a wide oversailing hipped roof. Inside, the space is partitioned by a shoulder-high coffin rest. This lychgate is part of a group with the Church of St James.
Local climate
Lychgate to Church of St James sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,220 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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