Lych Gate, Flanking Walls and Terminal Gatepiers at Left End Approximately 12 Metres South of Church of St Peter is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1987. Lych-gate.
Lych Gate, Flanking Walls and Terminal Gatepiers at Left End Approximately 12 Metres South of Church of St Peter
- WRENN ID
- inner-hammer-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1987
- Type
- Lych-gate
- OS grid reference
- SS 559 299
- Coordinates
- 51.05037, -4.05631
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lych gate, flanking walls, and terminal gatepiers are located approximately 12 metres south of the Church of St Peter in Tawstock. The lych gate was designed in 1867 by Sir Gilbert Scott. The flanking walls likely have late Medieval origins but have undergone significant rebuilding. The terminal gatepiers are probably from the 18th century.
The lych gate features stone rubble walls and a slate roof with gable ends, supported by square-section braced timber posts. There is an apex cross at the centre of the ridge and square latticed gates. The flanking walls are made of stone rubble with some dressed coping stones, and there is a mounting block on the right-hand wall. The terminal piers are constructed of ashlar, square in section, and topped with pyramid caps.
Local climate
Lych Gate, Flanking Walls and Terminal Gatepiers at Left End Approximately 12 Metres South of Church of St Peter sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% 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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