Lychgate at the Church of Our Lady and St Alphonsus is a Grade II listed building in the Malvern Hills local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 2016. Lychgate.
Lychgate at the Church of Our Lady and St Alphonsus
- WRENN ID
- rooted-tracery-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Malvern Hills
- Constituency
- West Worcestershire MP: Dame Harriett Baldwin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 2016
- Type
- Lychgate
- OS grid reference
- SO 812 436
- Coordinates
- 52.09058, -2.27485
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lychgate at the Church of Our Lady and St Alphonsus dates from around 1846 and is attributed to AWN Pugin. It has a rectangular plan and is made of timber with a tiled roof. The lychgate features a tall, gabled roof supported by thick chamfered timber posts with curved braces. It includes a double gate and a separate pedestrian gate.
Local climate
Lychgate at the Church of Our Lady and St Alphonsus receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% 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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