Lychgate at Approximately 30 Metres South of Church of St Piran is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 May 1967. A C15 Lychgate.
Lychgate at Approximately 30 Metres South of Church of St Piran
- WRENN ID
- nether-cinder-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Camborne and Redruth MP: Perran Moon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 May 1967
- Type
- Lychgate
- OS grid reference
- SW 770 520
- Coordinates
- 50.32574, -5.13339
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This lychgate, located approximately 30 metres south of the Church of St Piran, dates from around 1805 or possibly 1873 and incorporates 15th-century window tracery. It is constructed from granite and killas rubble, with dressed granite details. The roof is made of scantle slate and features granite-coped gable ends. The lychgate has a rectangular plan with entrances at both the front and rear, and stone benches on either side of a grid stile. The front and rear gable ends each have a central entrance with a 4-centred arch, which includes 15th-century window tracery and hoodmoulds above.
Local climate
Lychgate at Approximately 30 Metres South of Church of St Piran receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% 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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