Lych Gate About 8 Metres South of Parish Church of St James is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. Lych gate.
Lych Gate About 8 Metres South of Parish Church of St James
- WRENN ID
- pale-bronze-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Lych gate
- OS grid reference
- SS 252 112
- Coordinates
- 50.87461, -4.4852
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lych gate, located about 8 metres south of the Parish Church of St James, was likely built around 1860 by Sir George Gilbert Scott, who also restored the church. It is constructed from ashlar slatestone and granite, featuring a gabled roof made of alternating courses of plain and fishscale slates, along with crested ridge tiles. The gable ends include timber lattice work. Beneath the gable, there is a tiled floor with a granite coffin rest set on a dressed freestone slab. The side walls that support the roof have slits and are adorned with chamfered granite rounded finials on the styles and strap hinges.
Local climate
Lych Gate About 8 Metres South of Parish Church of St James sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% 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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