Boer War Memorial Lychgate, Church of St Bartholomew, Horley is a Grade II listed building in the Reigate and Banstead local planning authority area, England. Lychgate.
Boer War Memorial Lychgate, Church of St Bartholomew, Horley
- WRENN ID
- weathered-banister-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Reigate and Banstead
- Constituency
- Dorking and Horley MP: Chris Coghlan (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Lychgate
- Address
- Boer War Memorial Lychgate, Church of St Bartholomew, Horley, Churchyard of Church of St Bartholomew, Church Road, RH6 8AB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 276 426
- Coordinates
- 51.16922, -0.17486
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Boer War memorial lychgate at the Church of St Bartholomew in Horley was built around 1903. It is constructed from Wealden sandstone, Bath stone, and limestone plinths, with an oak frame and gates, topped by a clay tile roof.
The lychgate features a steep hipped roof with high-set gablets at both ends, the eastern gable containing a timber cross. The roof is supported by a Gothic-style carved-oak frame, which includes curved braces that spring from carved corbels. The frame panels are decorated with quatrefoils and other Gothic-style tracery.
On the front face, the cross-beam has an inset panel carved in relief that reads, "IN THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY OF OUR FELLOW PARISHIONERS WHO FELL IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR 1899-1902." Below this, the names "G C SARGENT" and "J T TURNBULL" are carved in relief on the braces. The rear face features similar carvings, including the name "A W CARLING" on the western brace, and the rear cross-beam is also carved in relief with "VICAR H T LEWIS CHURCHWARDENS BERNARD W PARSONS FRANK E GLOVER."
The lychgate is supported by two plinths made of Wealden sandstone, with Bath stone quoins and limestone coping. Between the plinths, there is a low-set pair of oak gates, which have turned spindles above vertically-oriented panels.
Local climate
Boer War Memorial Lychgate, Church of St Bartholomew, Horley receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 71% 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, 17 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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