Lych Gate to Church of St John the Baptist is a Grade II listed building in the Mole Valley local planning authority area, England. Lych gate.

Lych Gate to Church of St John the Baptist

WRENN ID
frozen-marble-marsh
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mole Valley
Constituency
Dorking and Horley MP: Chris Coghlan (LD)
Country
England
Type
Lych gate
Address
Lych Gate to Church of St John the Baptist, the Street, Capel
OS grid reference
TQ 175 407
Coordinates
51.15373, -0.31991
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The lych gate to the Church of St. John the Baptist was built around 1865 by Henry Woodyer. It features sandstone block plinth walls with a timber-framed superstructure that supports a Horsham slab roof. The corners of the walls are accentuated with ashlar quoins. The main posts are braced and chamfered, with broach stops. There are struts from the lower braces to the collar of the hipped roof above, arched braces to the collar purlin, and a cambered collar beam at the center that supports a braced king-post. Below, there are double gates with diagonal rails.

Local climate

Lych Gate to Church of St John the Baptist receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% 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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