Churchyard Wall and Attached Lych Gate North and West of Church is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 July 1984. Wall, lych gate.
Churchyard Wall and Attached Lych Gate North and West of Church
- WRENN ID
- stranded-corridor-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 July 1984
- Type
- Wall, lych gate
- Address
- Churchyard Wall and Attached Lych Gate North and West of Church, Powerstock
- OS grid reference
- SY 517 962
- Coordinates
- 50.76355, -2.68618
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The churchyard wall and attached lych gate, located to the north and west of the church in Powerstock, date from the 18th century. The wall is made of coursed rubble stone and stands approximately 20 feet tall on the west side, continuing southwest to meet the Old Cottage and extending east to the lych gate. The lych gate itself is dated 1859 and features dressed stone walls topped with a hipped stone slab roof. It has buttresses at the corners and a cornice adorned with carved eagles and lions. The entrances on both the front and rear have pointed segmental arches with wave-mouldings.
Local climate
Churchyard Wall and Attached Lych Gate North and West of Church receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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