Lych Gate at St Peter's Church (100 Metres to East North East of Chancel) is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1984. Lych gate.
Lych Gate at St Peter's Church (100 Metres to East North East of Chancel)
- WRENN ID
- late-baluster-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 May 1984
- Type
- Lych gate
- OS grid reference
- TL 297 236
- Coordinates
- 51.89612, -0.11511
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lych gate at St Peter's Church, located 100 meters to the east-north-east of the chancel, was built around 1919 for Canon Mills in memory of his son and others who were killed in the Great War. It features an oak timber frame set on a waist-high plinth made of knapped flint, topped with limestone capping, quoins, and buttress offsets. The steep roof is covered with red tiles and gabled at the front. Inside, there is a shallow covered gateway with oak boarded double gates and two benches. The gate has moulded bargeboards and two scissor-braced principals with ogee braces connecting the corner posts to the undersides of the braces. The east gable displays cusped lozenge-shaped bracing and includes a raised-lettered inscription on a board, topped with embattled cresting.
Local climate
Lych Gate at St Peter's Church (100 Metres to East North East of Chancel) sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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