Lychgate South of Church of St Hermes is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1988. Lychgate.
Lychgate South of Church of St Hermes
- WRENN ID
- burning-pillar-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1988
- Type
- Lychgate
- Address
- Lychgate South of Church of St Hermes, St. Ervan
- OS grid reference
- SW 891 702
- Coordinates
- 50.49415, -4.97392
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lychgate south of the Church of St Hermes is an 18th-century structure made of slate rubble, featuring slate coping and slate seats. It is a roofless lychgate with side walls on either side of the path, which include integral benches on the inside and integral gate-piers at the outer ends. At the inner end, there is a wrought-iron gate from the late 19th or early 20th century, characterized by arrowhead shafts, along with rebuilt steps leading down to the churchyard, which is at a lower level.
Local climate
Lychgate South of Church of St Hermes sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2001
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