Lych Gate and Adjoining Building North of East End of All Hallows Church of Saint Kea is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 March 1986. Lych gate, adjoining building.
Lych Gate and Adjoining Building North of East End of All Hallows Church of Saint Kea
- WRENN ID
- fossil-threshold-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1986
- Type
- Lych gate, adjoining building
- OS grid reference
- SW 810 426
- Coordinates
- 50.24336, -5.07244
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lych gate and adjoining building, located north of the east end of All Hallows Church of Saint Kea, date from around 1802 and are possibly designed by James Wyatt. The structure was re-roofed around 1896, and there is an early to mid-19th century building attached. The materials used include killas rubble with some dressed granite. The lych gate features a steep dry Delabole slate roof with open arch-braced gables, while the adjoining building has a hipped dry Delabole slate roof topped with clay ridge tiles.
The lych gate has a rectangular plan with a walkway flanked by side walls that include benches. The adjoining building is a single-storey, single-cell structure with a rectangular shape and a central entrance. The north front displays the building on the left and the lych gate on the right. The building has a symmetrical two-window front with a central doorway, a ledged door, and wooden shutters on the windows. There is a mounting block below the right-hand window and a letterbox marked "G P 0" in the wall to the right of the right-hand window.
The lych gate is supported by granite and killas piers that frame the gateway, which features a 19th-century wrought iron gate with finialled bars, closely set under a lock rail. Inside the lych gate, there is a granite grid floor (now filled), granite-coped side benches, and an arch-braced roof structure. The first church on this site, built in 1802, was designed by James Wyatt, and the walls of the lych gate may be the only surviving elements from that period. This site is included for its group value.
Local climate
Lych Gate and Adjoining Building North of East End of All Hallows Church of Saint Kea receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% 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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