Lychgate to All Souls Church is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 February 2005. Lychgate.
Lychgate to All Souls Church
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Sevenoaks MP: Laura Trott (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 February 2005
- Type
- Lychgate
- Address
- Lychgate to All Souls Church, Church Road, Crockenhill
- OS grid reference
- TQ 505 671
- Coordinates
- 51.38323, 0.16231
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lychgate to All Souls Church, built in the early 1850s, is likely designed by architect Edwin Nash, who also constructed the nearby church. This Gothic-style lychgate is a timber-framed structure made of oak, featuring a handmade roof with alternating plain and decorated tiles. It consists of four square upright posts that support a gabled kingpost roof. The gables are adorned with trilobed bargeboards, and the bargeboards closest to the street display the inscription "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord." Attached to the front posts are gates made of oak planks with serrated tops and large original iron hinges. The lychgate served as a shelter for resting coffins before they were taken into the church for funerals. It remains an unaltered mid-19th century lychgate, likely by the same architect as the church.
Local climate
Lychgate to All Souls Church sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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