Lych Gate and Front Wall to the Church of St Michael and All Angels is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1985. A C19 Gate, wall.

Lych Gate and Front Wall to the Church of St Michael and All Angels

WRENN ID
mired-spire-moss
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Kirklees
Constituency
Dewsbury and Batley MP: Iqbal Mohamed (Ind)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 July 1985
Type
Gate, wall
Address
Lych Gate and Front Wall to the Church of St Michael and All Angels, Church Lane
OS grid reference
SE 253 188
Coordinates
53.66555, -1.61762
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The lych gate and front wall to the Church of St. Michael and All Angels were built around 1877. The gateway features a stone base and a timber superstructure topped with a pitched slated roof that has arched trusses inside. The wall is constructed of ashlar stone and is panelled with a triangular coping. There are two pairs of squat chamfered ashlar gatepiers.

Local climate

Lych Gate and Front Wall to the Church of St Michael and All Angels receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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