Lychgate to Church of St Andrews and Flight of Steps to South is a Grade II listed building in the Teignbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1988. Lychgate. 1 related planning application.

Lychgate to Church of St Andrews and Flight of Steps to South

WRENN ID
eternal-fireplace-sage
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Teignbridge
Constituency
Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 December 1988
Type
Lychgate
Address
Lychgate to Church of St Andrews and Flight of Steps to South, Kenn
OS grid reference
SX 921 856
Coordinates
50.66078, -3.52676
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The lychgate to the Church of St Andrews, along with a flight of steps to the south, consists of a red sandstone lychgate built in the 19th century and a flight of semi-circular steps from the 18th century. The lychgate features a tiled roof that is gabled at both ends, with stone end walls that widen at the top. Curved braces spring from corbels on the north and south ends of the walls, supporting the gabled roof adorned with ornamental tiles and crested ridge tiles. It has a pair of timber gates that are boarded below and have turned balusters above. The semi-circular steps leading up to the lychgate from the road provide an attractive approach to the church. A watercolour by Swete from 1796 depicts the semi-circular steps with gate-piers at the top, as noted in his work "Picturesque sketches of Devon".

Local climate

Lychgate to Church of St Andrews and Flight of Steps to South receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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