Lych Gate to Church of St Andrew is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 December 1997. Lych gate.
Lych Gate to Church of St Andrew
- WRENN ID
- under-rampart-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 December 1997
- Type
- Lych gate
- Address
- Lych Gate to Church of St Andrew, Church Road, Weymouth
- OS grid reference
- SY 705 830
- Coordinates
- 50.64596, -2.4175
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lych gate to the Church of St Andrew, built in 1911, features an ashlar plinth and a timber frame with a tiled roof. It has a square plan with plinth walls that have a chamfered top and a plain tile sill supporting a moulded plate. The sides display a flat segmental arch with a central drop above a transom, which is supported by four vertical rails. Each returned end has a narrow bay with a pointed arch, alongside an arch-braced centre bay. The timberwork is generally chamfered and stopped. The front of the gate has a low pair of 20th-century gates. The hipped gambrel roof includes small open gablets on the north and south sides, with diagonal struts supporting the hip rafters, and it is boarded beneath the tiles. There is a short wooden bench on each side. A tablet on the front notes a restoration that took place in 1950. This lych gate is architecturally significant and historically important as it incorporates timbers salvaged from the 15th-century Court House at Sutton Poyntz, which was located opposite Sutton Mill and was destroyed by fire in 1908.
Local climate
Lych Gate to Church of St Andrew receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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