Lychgate and Flanking Walls Approximately 15 Metres to South of Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 August 1983. Lychgate.
Lychgate and Flanking Walls Approximately 15 Metres to South of Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- late-panel-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Newbury MP: Mr Lee Dillon (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 August 1983
- Type
- Lychgate
- OS grid reference
- SU 474 683
- Coordinates
- 51.41175, -1.31901
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lychgate, built in 1897, is located approximately 15 metres south of the Church of St Mary. It features a timber frame with a hipped tile roof and a central archway flanked by traceried sidelights. Each side has four bays adorned with Gothic curvilinear tracery, and there is a bronze cross on the ridge. This structure was erected in memory of Evelyn Agnes Marion Blackburn Maze by W.P. Blackburn Maze. The lychgate is accompanied by short flanking walls made of flint with ashlar dressings, lacing courses, and coping. The left-hand wall is about 10 metres long and one metre high, while the right-hand wall is approximately 5 metres long and one metre high.
Local climate
Lychgate and Flanking Walls Approximately 15 Metres to South of Church of St Mary receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% 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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