Lych gate to the Church of St Peter is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 January 2024. Lych gate.
Lych gate to the Church of St Peter
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 January 2024
- Type
- Lych gate
- Address
- Lych gate to the Church of St Peter, Market Street, North Tawton, EX20 2ET
- OS grid reference
- SS 664 017
- Coordinates
- 50.80007, -3.8967
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lych gate to the Church of St Peter is located approximately 35 meters north of the church and was built in the late 19th century. It features a timber frame painted black, resting on granite stone plinths. The roof is hipped with gablets and is covered in concrete tiles, which replaced the original bands of plain and scalloped clay tiles.
The structure consists of two unequal bays, providing a coffin entrance and a pedestrian entrance accessed from north to south. It has three upright timber posts with arch braces supporting the sill beam. Angled struts connect the arch braces to the tie beam, and smaller arch braces rise from the posts to the central axial beam, creating a pointed arch for the pedestrian entrance. The timbers are stop-chamfered with run-out stops. The hipped roof features gablets at the apex adorned with timber trefoil motifs.
The lych gate is supported by three granite stone plinths that lead up a stepped approach to the churchyard. The steps are bordered by granite kerb stones and have cobbled floor platforms made of Mortimer slate stones.
Local climate
Lych gate to the Church of St Peter sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% 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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