Lych Gate Immediately South West of Church of Holy Trinity is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 November 1991. Lych gate.
Lych Gate Immediately South West of Church of Holy Trinity
- WRENN ID
- errant-jade-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 November 1991
- Type
- Lych gate
- Address
- Lych Gate Immediately South West of Church of Holy Trinity, St. Stephen
- OS grid reference
- TL 151 033
- Coordinates
- 51.71722, -0.33398
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lych gate, located immediately southwest of the Church of Holy Trinity, was built in 1891. It features a timber frame set on a plinth made of flint and brick, topped with stone and brick coping. The roof is gable-ended and covered with tiles, showcasing bands of fishscale tiles and decorative ridge tiles. The bargeboards are ornately cusped. Inside, the collar rafter roof includes brattished and inscribed tie-beams in the end gables. The outer gable displays open close-studding with a cross at the center, while the inner gable has a king-post and diagonal struts. Each side of the lych gate has four cusped lights. This structure stands in front of the west end of the Romanesque Church of Holy Trinity, designed by Sir G G Scott in 1842. The lych gate was erected in memory of Mr and Mrs Harry Oliver by their children.
Local climate
Lych Gate Immediately South West of Church of Holy Trinity 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 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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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