Lychgate at South East Entrance to St Michael's Churchyard is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1987. Lychgate.

Lychgate at South East Entrance to St Michael's Churchyard

WRENN ID
shifting-steel-wax
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 June 1987
Type
Lychgate
Address
Lychgate at South East Entrance to St Michael's Churchyard, St. Minver Lowlands
OS grid reference
SW 937 753
Coordinates
50.54158, -4.91291
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The lychgate at the southeast entrance to St. Michael's Churchyard dates from around 1865 and is possibly designed by J.P. St. Aubyn, who may have also been responsible for the restoration of St. Michael's Church in the same year. The structure features stone rubble side walls with granite dressings and decorative slate hanging in the gable ends of its steeply pitched slate roof. It has a rectangular plan, and the slate-hung gable ends are pierced to create trefoiled arches above the entrances. There is a 20th-century timber gate that is designed to be sympathetic to the original style. The roof is supported by collar rafters.

Local climate

Lychgate at South East Entrance to St Michael's Churchyard sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% 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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