Lychgate, The South Gate to the Churchyard is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 May 1987. Lychgate.

Lychgate, The South Gate to the Churchyard

WRENN ID
salt-tallow-cedar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Devon
Constituency
Exmouth and Exeter East MP: David Reed (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 May 1987
Type
Lychgate
Address
Lychgate, The South Gate to the Churchyard, Farringdon
OS grid reference
SY 017 911
Coordinates
50.71203, -3.39261
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The lychgate, which serves as the south gate to the churchyard, was built in 1888. It features a timber frame set on brick sleeper walls topped with Hamstone coping, and has a red tile roof adorned with crested ridge tiles. The structure has a gable-ended design with a two-bay roof supported by timber-framed side walls, each featuring a central trefoil-headed window. The side walls rest on brick walls with Hamstone coping.

Each gable end includes a cambered tie beam with a king post above, flanked by raking struts. Curving braces extend from the base of the posts to the tie beam, with moulded soffits and a chamfered soffit on the tie over the arch, featuring scroll stops at the junction with the braces. The front of the tie beam is inscribed with a Latin Biblical quotation in Gothic lettering, and the spandrels are decorated with open work quatrefoils. The roof extends slightly at each end, supported by small brackets, and the gable features shaped bargeboards. The underside is boarded, and there is a plain king post truss in the center. The original double gates are located at the front of the lychgate.

Local climate

Lychgate, The South Gate to the Churchyard receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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