Lych Gate at Church of Saint Wenappa is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 February 1986. A C19 Monument.
Lych Gate at Church of Saint Wenappa
- WRENN ID
- eastward-glass-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Camborne and Redruth MP: Perran Moon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 February 1986
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Lych Gate at Church of Saint Wenappa, Churchtown, Gwennap
- OS grid reference
- SW 738 401
- Coordinates
- 50.218, -5.17147
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lych gate at the Church of Saint Wenappa, dating from the late 19th century, features rubble and dressed granite walls. It has a half-hipped dry Delabole slate roof with crested ridge tiles and is designed in the Gothic style. The structure is square in plan, with identical north and south open ends that include cusped pointed arched doorways flanked by plinths. Above the doorways are two tiers of moulded corbels that support moulded wall plates and arched-braced terminal trusses, which end at collar level with small hips. Inside, there are side ledges and a central coffin rest, along with a rafter roof.
Local climate
Lych Gate at Church of Saint Wenappa receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% 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 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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