Lych Gate to St Leonard's Church Including Flanking Walls is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. A C20 Lych gate.
Lych Gate to St Leonard's Church Including Flanking Walls
- WRENN ID
- swift-garret-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Lych gate
- Address
- Lych Gate to St Leonard's Church Including Flanking Walls, Church End, Sandridge
- OS grid reference
- TL 170 105
- Coordinates
- 51.7814, -0.30397
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lych gate to St Leonard's Church, built in 1920 and dedicated as a war memorial in 1921, features red brick lower walls and an open timbered upper section with a plain tile open gabled roof. The timber walls consist of four open bays on each side, each supported by small arched braces to the wall plate. The roof has a panelled underside and cusped bargeboards. A Gothic lettered inscription on the west tie beam reads: "Through the Grave and Gate of Death we pass to our joyful Resurrection." The walls are finished with square end piers and extend for 10 metres on each side.
Local climate
Lych Gate to St Leonard's Church Including Flanking Walls 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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