Lychgate at Church of St Mary the Virgin is a Grade II listed building in the North Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 June 2025. Lychgate. 2 related planning applications.
Lychgate at Church of St Mary the Virgin
- WRENN ID
- riven-garret-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Somerset
- Constituency
- North Somerset MP: Sadik Al-Hassan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 June 2025
- Type
- Lychgate
- Address
- Lychgate at Church of St Mary the Virgin, Church Road, Leigh Woods, Bristol, Long Ashton, BS8 3PG
- OS grid reference
- ST 558 728
- Coordinates
- 51.45276, -2.63638
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lychgate at the Church of St Mary the Virgin was built between 1919 and 1920, designed by Sir George Oatley. It features a timber frame resting on a limestone conglomerate plinth and has a tiled roof.
Located at the southern entrance to the churchyard, the lychgate is rectangular in shape. It has a stone plinth topped by a pegged timber frame, which supports a hipped roof covered in red tiles. The roof is adorned with a cross finial painted in red and gold. The timber frame includes deep posts with decorative gothic tracery and balustrades, creating pointed arched openings on either side. There is a pair of barred gates with decorative ironwork.
Inside, the wall plate features a carved scroll dedication, also painted in red and gold, which reads: "VITAM SALUTI PATRIAE PORT LABUERE (A.M.D.G.) IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF ‘NAMES’ WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 – 18." The roof contains scissor braced trusses, and there are timber benches on shaped stone brackets flanking the passage, along with a dressed stone paved floor.
Local climate
Lychgate at Church of St Mary the Virgin receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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