Lychgate to the Church of St John the Baptist Including Granite Steps is a Grade II listed building in the Teignbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 March 1988. A C17 Lychgate.
Lychgate to the Church of St John the Baptist Including Granite Steps
- WRENN ID
- idle-corridor-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Teignbridge
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 March 1988
- Type
- Lychgate
- Address
- Lychgate to the Church of St John the Baptist Including Granite Steps, Ashton
- OS grid reference
- SX 856 846
- Coordinates
- 50.65044, -3.61938
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lychgate to the Church of St John the Baptist, likely built in the late 17th century or 18th century and altered in the 19th century, features a hipped slate roof supported by open timber ends. It has 19th-century timber gates and a flight of granite steps leading up to the south. Braced vertical timber posts at each end support the roof, which is additionally reinforced by 19th-century posts at the north corners. The 19th-century boarded gates have iron spike finials, with one gate removed at the time of the survey in 1986 and located in the churchyard. An 8-step flight of rough granite steps ascends from a steep path to the church. The lychgate has group value with the church.
Local climate
Lychgate to the Church of St John the Baptist Including Granite Steps receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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