Lych Gate at St Bartholomew's Church is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 May 1986. Lych gate.
Lych Gate at St Bartholomew's Church
- WRENN ID
- ancient-granite-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 May 1986
- Type
- Lych gate
- Address
- Lych Gate at St Bartholomew's Church, Hemp Lane, Wigginton
- OS grid reference
- SP 940 102
- Coordinates
- 51.78332, -0.63817
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lych gate at St. Bartholomew's Church was built in 1910 in memory of Arthur Sutton Valpy, a Canon of Winchester who died on June 15, 1909, and was created by his relatives for Easter 1910. It features an oak frame set on low stone walls with a chamfered finish, topped by a steep red tile roof made from machine-made tiles, which includes an iron gable cross at the front. The structure consists of a small square, two-bay gateway with cusped arcaded sides above a panelled lower section. It has heavy chamfered corner posts and trefoil pierced knee braces supporting a cambered tie beam at each gable, along with an open screen and cusped bargeboards. There is an inscription on the tie beam facing the road. Inside, a heavy iron lantern is supported, and there is a pair of gates featuring cusping and a central pendant part, with timber benches on either side. The gate is bordered by granite set stones surrounding a rectangle of pebble pitching.
Local climate
Lych Gate at St Bartholomew's Church sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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