Lychgate at the South Entrance to the Churchyard of Church of St Colanus is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 May 1988. Lychgate.
Lychgate at the South Entrance to the Churchyard of Church of St Colanus
- WRENN ID
- long-string-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Austell and Newquay MP: Noah Law (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 May 1988
- Type
- Lychgate
- OS grid reference
- SW 868 612
- Coordinates
- 50.41242, -5.00171
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lychgate at the south entrance to the churchyard of the Church of St Colanus is a 19th-century structure made of slatestone rubble and granite. It features a slate roof with gable ends leading to an attached shed. The side walls stand approximately 1.5 meters high and are topped with moulded granite coping. There are granite benches on each inner side. The lychgate has a 20th-century wooden gate flanked by two wrought iron railings, each adorned with trefoil finials. Attached to the lychgate is a small single-storey rubble shed, which has a pointed arched door in the outer gable end and raised coped verges at the gable. The inner gable end of the shed includes a re-used single cusped granite window.
Local climate
Lychgate at the South Entrance to the Churchyard of Church of St Colanus receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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