Lychgate at the South Entrance to the Churchyard of Church of St Carantoc is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 May 1988. Lychgate.
Lychgate at the South Entrance to the Churchyard of Church of St Carantoc
- WRENN ID
- tall-string-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 May 1988
- Type
- Lychgate
- Address
- Lychgate at the South Entrance to the Churchyard of Church of St Carantoc, Crantock
- OS grid reference
- SW 790 604
- Coordinates
- 50.40268, -5.11045
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lychgate at the south entrance to the churchyard of the Church of St Carantoc is a late 19th-century structure made of slatestone and granite rubble. It features a hipped slate roof with ridge tiles. The lychgate has rubble walls on the sides and is open at the front and rear. Inside, the walls include stone benches and a central dressed granite pier. There is a central granite coffin rest and a pair of wooden gates with chamfered wooden lattice. The eaves are adorned with a frieze that has Gothic lettering inscribed on the front and rear.
Local climate
Lychgate at the South Entrance to the Churchyard of Church of St Carantoc receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% 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 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% 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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