Lychgate at Middleton Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 February 2000. Lychgate.
Lychgate at Middleton Chapel
- WRENN ID
- scarred-pillar-wax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 February 2000
- Type
- Lychgate
- Address
- Lychgate at Middleton Chapel, Bitterley
- OS grid reference
- SO 539 773
- Coordinates
- 52.39214, -2.67771
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lychgate at Middleton Chapel is a mid-19th century structure. It features an oak frame topped with sandstone slates and roll-moulded ridge tiles. The framed gateway has a pitched roof and a pair of gates. Each side of the gates is supported by twin posts with middle rails and boarded infilling. The design includes ogee-chamfered moulded brackets and arched braces that spring from round shafts with truncated octagonal capitals, supporting the tie, principals, and wall plates. At the top, the ridge is adorned with a central oak Greek cross. The gates themselves have a top and bottom rail with swept bracing.
Local climate
Lychgate at Middleton Chapel receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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