Lych Gate to Church of St Peter 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 Peter
- WRENN ID
- inner-corridor-elder
- 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 Peter, Weald Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 571 938
- Coordinates
- 51.62138, 0.26835
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lych gate to the Church of St Peter, built in 1868, is designed by S Teulon, who also rebuilt the medieval church at that time. It features an oak frame and a roof covered with 19th-century flat tiles. The structure consists of two bays and three principal trusses, which include crown-posts with upper king struts and arched braces to collars. The tie-beams are cambered and knee-braced to unjowled principal posts. The roof extends outward, supported by a collar purlin and trefoil pierced brackets from the crown posts. The members are chamfered with simple run-out stops, and the intermediate common trusses are of a simple collar rafter type. The barge boards are decorated with pierced designs of linked quatrefoils and trefoils. The lower framing rests on a stone base, with principal posts featuring broach stops, framed side rails, and curved tension braces that support wooden railings with upper decoration. The lych gate, the tombstone to Gyver Bridge, and the Church of St Peter form a cohesive group.
Local climate
Lych Gate to Church of St Peter 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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