Lychgate to Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 February 2000. Lychgate.

Lychgate to Church of St Mary

WRENN ID
grey-beam-ivory
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 to Church of St Mary, Caynham
OS grid reference
SO 553 732
Coordinates
52.35507, -2.65694
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The lychgate to the Church of St Mary is an early 20th-century structure located in Caynham. It features an oak frame set on a plinth made of coursed stone rubble, topped with a plain-tile roof. The roof has a single clasped-purlin design supported by two trusses. Each truss includes a straight tie beam, collar, and struts, with a cusped brace positioned below the tie beam. The lychgate has two wall-frames that are supported by paired long straight braces, which are set on the plinth and have a chamfered top. There is a pair of timber gates, constructed with top, mid, and bottom rails that are braced with steel bars and mounted on pin hinges. On the south-west truss, there is a timber plaque that reads: 'ERECTED BY THE PARISH OF CAYNHAM/TO THE GLORY OF GOD/AND/IN LOVING MEMORY/OF OUR DEAD/1914-1918'.

Local climate

Lychgate to Church of St Mary 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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