Lych Gate at Church of St Mary the Virgin is a Grade II* listed building in the Brentwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1993. Monument.
Lych Gate at Church of St Mary the Virgin
- WRENN ID
- haunted-finial-barley
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Brentwood
- Constituency
- Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1993
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Lych Gate at Church of St Mary the Virgin, Great Warley Street
- OS grid reference
- TQ 589 899
- Coordinates
- 51.5864, 0.29257
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lych gate at the Church of St Mary the Virgin was built in 1903 by C Harrison Townsend. It features an oak frame set on a stone base and has a peg-tiled roof. The structure consists of two bays and three trusses, with side purlins and axially braced queen posts. The tie-beams are supported by shaped braces, and the principal posts are braced in four directions down to cruciform sole plates. These elements are decorated with cyma and quarter round mouldings, which include variously decorated stops, primarily in the form of leaves. The barge boards are bracketed out and intricately carved with leaves and fruit. An inscribed tie-beam and plaque commemorate the construction of the gate in 1903 during the reign of King Edward VII. The gate itself is made of heavy oak framed boards in an Art Nouveau style, featuring a serpentine top with berry finials and heavy clasping hinges with exaggerated stud heads. This lych gate is part of a group with the Church.
Local climate
Lych Gate at Church of St Mary the Virgin sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 660 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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