Lych Gate to the Church of St Paul is a Grade II listed building in the Wokingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 July 1987. A Late C19 Lych gate.
Lych Gate to the Church of St Paul
- WRENN ID
- narrow-flagstone-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wokingham
- Constituency
- Wokingham MP: Clive Jones (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 July 1987
- Type
- Lych gate
- Address
- Lych Gate to the Church of St Paul, Reading Road
- OS grid reference
- SU 805 690
- Coordinates
- 51.41464, -0.84352
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lych gate to the Church of St. Paul is a late 19th-century structure designed by Henry Woodyer. It features stone piers with plain chamfers and a cornice, supporting a wooden roof that is arch-braced from the piers to two plain purlins. Above, there are scissor rafters and a scalloped ridge piece. Each pier has four semi-arch braces on the outside face leading to a plain rafter plate. The roof is gabled and covered with tiles, adorned with small gablets on either side and moulded, cusped bargeboards. The gate itself consists of a pair of framed wooden gates with three trefoiled-headed panels, a middle rail, and diagonal braces, topped with a moulded top rail. Some fragments of former spear-headed iron cresting remain. The lych gate is positioned along the axis from the road to the church tower.
Local climate
Lych Gate to the Church of St Paul sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more 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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