Lychgate to the West of Holy Rood Church is a Grade II listed building in the East Hampshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 2004. Lychgate.
Lychgate to the West of Holy Rood Church
- WRENN ID
- secret-outpost-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hampshire
- Constituency
- East Hampshire MP: Damian Hinds (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 July 2004
- Type
- Lychgate
- OS grid reference
- SU 732 412
- Coordinates
- 51.16567, -0.95445
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lychgate to the west of Holy Rood Church in Alton was built in 1899 and is designed in the Perpendicular style. It features an openwork timber frame structure set on a low plinth wall made of rubble and ashlar, topped with a tiled roof. The lychgate consists of two bays and includes decorative tie beams that support a queen post arcade with arched infill panels beneath the collar. The gables are adorned with scalloped bargeboards and pendants. There are wooden double gates on the roadside, fitted with pintle hinges. An inscription on the tie beam commemorates Elizabeth Bradly Howard and notes that it was erected by her sister, Edith E. B. Judge, in 1899. This lychgate remains an unaltered 19th-century memorial structure associated with the listed church.
Local climate
Lychgate to the West of Holy Rood Church receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% 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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