Lych Gate at St Helens Church is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. Lych gate.
Lych Gate at St Helens Church
- WRENN ID
- gilded-shingle-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Lych gate
- Address
- Lych Gate at St Helens Church, High Street, Wheathampstead
- OS grid reference
- TL 177 139
- Coordinates
- 51.81224, -0.29386
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lych gate at St Helens Church is a mid to late 19th century structure. It features a timber frame and a plain tile roof. The design includes two heavy posts with cross beams that support an open-timbered roof, complemented by curved braces and clasped purlin construction. The posts rest on timber floor plates, and there are double low gates adorned with dog-tooth iron ornament along the top. This lych gate is included for its group value with the church.
Local climate
Lych Gate at St Helens 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 82% 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 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% 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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