Lychgate to Church of St James is a Grade II listed building in the Guildford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 May 1985. Lychgate.
Lychgate to Church of St James
- WRENN ID
- lunar-corbel-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Guildford
- Constituency
- Godalming and Ash MP: Sir Jeremy Hunt (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 May 1985
- Type
- Lychgate
- Address
- Lychgate to Church of St James, the Square, Shere
- OS grid reference
- TQ 073 477
- Coordinates
- 51.21912, -0.46384
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lychgate to the Church of St James was built in 1901-1902 by Sir Edwin Lutyens. It features a timber frame with a hipped pyramidal roof made of Horsham slabs. The structure has braced posts with arched, cambered lintels on the sides, all of which are inscribed. The north side includes three rails with cross bracing and iron spikes, while the south side has a sandstone wall and double braced gates. This lychgate is included in the listing for its group value context.
Local climate
Lychgate to Church of St James sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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