Lych Gate to Parish Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Harrow local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 May 1983. Church.

Lych Gate to Parish Church of St Mary

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Harrow
Constituency
Harrow West MP: Gareth Thomas (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 May 1983
Type
Church
Address
Lych Gate to Parish Church of St Mary, Church Hill
OS grid reference
TQ 153 874
Coordinates
51.57379, -0.33708
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The lych gate to the Parish Church of St Mary, built in 1861, is located on Church Hill in Harrow-on-the-Hill. It was erected in memory of John William Cunningham, who served as the Vicar of Harrow from 1801 to 1861. The structure features a timber frame with decorative fretted bargeboards at the gable ends, supported by a brick dwarf wall and chamfered pad stone. It has a tiled roof.

Local climate

Lych Gate to Parish Church of St Mary sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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