Lychgate, North Gate, West Gate and Walls at Churchyard of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Rutland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 February 1984. Lychgate, gate, walls.
Lychgate, North Gate, West Gate and Walls at Churchyard of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- fallen-rampart-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rutland
- Constituency
- Rutland and Stamford MP: Alicia Kearns (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 February 1984
- Type
- Lychgate, gate, walls
- Address
- Lychgate, North Gate, West Gate and Walls at Churchyard of St Mary, Cottesmore Road, Ashwell
- OS grid reference
- SK 865 137
- Coordinates
- 52.71461, -0.71957
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lychgate, north gate, west gate, and walls at the churchyard of St. Mary date from around 1850 and are likely designed by W. Butterfield. They are constructed from coursed squared rubble ironstone with limestone dressings and coping. The lychgate features a wooden open work structure with a slate roof. The walls, which are partly retaining and supported by buttresses, enclose all four sides of the churchyard. The rubble stone is striped with dressed stone and topped with coping.
The eastern lychgate has a half hipped roof and a gable facing, supported on open work and a high stone plinth. Four steps lead up to a landing, from which five additional steps ascend to the churchyard. There is a pair of wooden gates on the landing, with wrought iron spearhead finials alternating with simple wooden ones. The north gate is made of stone and features a Gothic arch with sloping sides and a flat top, flanked by two buttresses. Inside the stone-coped side walls, five stone steps lead to a landing, where four more steps ascend to the churchyard. This landing also has a pair of gates similar to those on the lychgate. The small west gate has a Gothic arched doorway with a stone surround and a wooden door.
Local climate
Lychgate, North Gate, West Gate and Walls at Churchyard of St Mary sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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