Lychgate to Church Yard is a Grade II listed building in the Charnwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1984. Lych gate.
Lychgate to Church Yard
- WRENN ID
- pale-footing-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Charnwood
- Constituency
- Loughborough MP: Dr Jeevun Sandher (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1984
- Type
- Lych gate
- Address
- Lychgate to Church Yard, Far Street, Wymeswold
- OS grid reference
- SK 602 235
- Coordinates
- 52.8057, -1.10712
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lychgate to the churchyard, built around 1844, was designed by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin. It features a pitched roof that is supported by a chamfered and braced wooden frame, all resting on a stone base. The roof is covered with fishscale and plain tiles, and it is topped in the center by a pierced wrought iron cross.
Local climate
Lychgate to Church Yard sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% 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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