Needham Market War Memorial Lych Gate is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 2020. Memorial lych gate.
Needham Market War Memorial Lych Gate
- WRENN ID
- dusted-joist-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 February 2020
- Type
- Memorial lych gate
- Address
- Needham Market War Memorial Lych Gate, St John the Baptist Cemetery, Barratts Lane, IP6 8BS
- OS grid reference
- TM 083 549
- Coordinates
- 52.15325, 1.04357
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Needham Market War Memorial Lych Gate is a First World War memorial built in 1921. It features a red brick base with timber above, topped with a tiled roof and a quarry-tiled floor.
The lych gate serves as the entrance to the cemetery on the north-west boundary. It has a symmetrical design with a brick base and a timber screen above, leading to a pitched roof. The outer elevation faces north-west and includes a pair of low timber gates with arched openings and slatted panels. A series of timber posts rise from the base, creating a screen of trefoil-arched openings on either side. The roof is supported by box-framed gable trusses with arching tie-beams, and the gable barge boards feature quatrefoil piercings at their feet. The tie beam on the north-west side is inscribed with ‘IN MEMORIAM / 1914 / 1918'. Additionally, panels on the north-west elevation of the base document the restoration of the lych gate in 1995. Inside, there are fixed timber benches with boarded backs along either side, and the floor is tiled.
Local climate
Needham Market War Memorial Lych Gate sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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