Lychgate to St George's Church and Churchyard Walls is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 July 1993. Lychgate.
Lychgate to St George's Church and Churchyard Walls
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-panel-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 July 1993
- Type
- Lychgate
- Address
- Lychgate to St George's Church and Churchyard Walls, the Green, Benenden
- OS grid reference
- TQ 808 326
- Coordinates
- 51.06509, 0.57942
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lychgate to St George's Church and the attached churchyard walls are notable structures located in Benenden. The lychgate was likely built around 1862 by David Brandon, while the wall was constructed in 1873 by George Devey. The lychgate features a sandstone base with wooden framing and a tiled gabled roof adorned with cusped bargeboards. Each side of the lychgate has three chamfered posts supported by curved braces, and it includes a tie beam with queen struts. The wooden gates are designed with a quatrefoil pattern. The churchyard wall, which is approximately 3 feet high, is made of sandstone and topped with sandstone coping, as noted in the accounts from 1873.
Local climate
Lychgate to St George's Church and Churchyard Walls 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 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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