Lych Gate to St Mary's Churchyard is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1985. A Victorian Lych gate.
Lych Gate to St Mary's Churchyard
- WRENN ID
- deep-zinc-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1985
- Type
- Lych gate
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Lych Gate to St Mary's Churchyard, Ickwell Road, Northill
- OS grid reference
- TL 149 465
- Coordinates
- 52.10508, -0.32316
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lych gate to St Mary's churchyard was built in 1880 in memory of John Harvey of Ickwell Bury. It is made of oak and features a clay tiled roof. This small open structure has a gabled roof and square piers with decorative carving at each corner. There are balustrades on both sides, which have chamfered balusters topped with three turned supports on each side. The gable ends are adorned with pierced decorative bargeboards.
Local climate
Lych Gate to St Mary's Churchyard sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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