Lych Gate and Coffin Rest at Approximately South of Church of Saint Gothian is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 January 1988. Lych gate.

Lych Gate and Coffin Rest at Approximately South of Church of Saint Gothian

WRENN ID
unlit-quartz-curlew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
Camborne and Redruth MP: Perran Moon (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 January 1988
Type
Lych gate
OS grid reference
SW 586 412
Coordinates
50.22169, -5.3853
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The lych gate and coffin rest, located approximately south of the Church of Saint Gothian, is a notable structure built around 1865-1867 by Edmund Sedding. It incorporates 15th-century piers and arches from the former south arcade of the church. The construction features granite rubble with granite dressings and a dry Delabole slate roof with projecting verges and eaves.

The design includes a grid stile with thick side walls that incorporate the 15th-century piers as responds to an arched doorway at both the front and rear. The coffin rest, made from a 13th-century tomb slab, is situated just outside the lych gate in the middle of the path leading to the church's south porch. The exterior showcases buttressed abutments at the front and rear with 4-centred arches, and the 15th-century standard A piers respond to these arches. The roof structure is highlighted by projecting wavy-edged barge boards over an exposed king post.

Local climate

Lych Gate and Coffin Rest at Approximately South of Church of Saint Gothian receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% 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 4 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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