Lych Gate at St Pauls Church is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1986. Lych gate.
Lych Gate at St Pauls Church
- WRENN ID
- riven-dormer-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Hemel Hempstead MP: David Taylor (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1986
- Type
- Lych gate
- Address
- Lych Gate at St Pauls Church, Chipperfield
- OS grid reference
- TL 043 015
- Coordinates
- 51.70316, -0.4919
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lych gate at St Paul's Church, built around 1863 in memory of Captain George Clayton, features oak construction on low brick and flint walls topped with chamfered stone. It has a shingled roof with decorative gables at both the front and rear, and a central cross axial on the ridge. Each side has a large square post supported by a long sleeper beam, which carries a longer wallplate that is arch braced from the raking prop. The central battlemented cambered tie-beam supports a king-post with axial braces leading to the ridge beam, along with curved V-struts to the middle rafter. The moulded bargeboards have scrolled feet that notch over the moulded ends of the wallplates, and there is a central diagonal pendant and a moulded member under the verge. The gate includes a pair of braced oak gates with studded iron capping, and there is a plaque on the west wallplate. This structure is included for its group value.
Local climate
Lych Gate at St Pauls Church sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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