Lych Gate to Church of St Paul is a Grade II listed building in the Brentwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1994. Lych gate.
Lych Gate to Church of St Paul
- WRENN ID
- lunar-string-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brentwood
- Constituency
- Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1994
- Type
- Lych gate
- Address
- Lych Gate to Church of St Paul, Mores Lane
- OS grid reference
- TQ 566 966
- Coordinates
- 51.64725, 0.26265
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lych gate to the Church of St Paul, built in 1878 by architect E.C. Lee, features an oak frame set on flint walls topped with stone cappings and a roof covered in machine-made flat tiles. It consists of two bays and three principal trusses. The outer trusses include king and queen posts with arched bracing that intersects at subsidiary posts. The central truss has a king post and soulaces, with bracket bracing connecting the king post to the collar. Solid braces extend from the posts to moulded tie-beams, with the outer ones being arched and moulded, featuring pierced spandrels with octofoil designs that include a cross and trefoil. The roof plates project and are arched braced from the posts. The principal posts also have intersecting arched bracing similar to that of the roof, with the wall plate projecting and footbracing present. The gate itself is currently missing, and the posts are topped with cruciform finials adorned with trefoil decoration. This inventive design draws on medieval construction techniques, and the lych gate and the church together form a cohesive group.
Local climate
Lych Gate to Church of St Paul 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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