Boundary Wall, Lych Gate and Stiles to Churchyard to Church of St Mary Magdalen is a Grade II listed building in the Forest of Dean local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 March 1988. Boundary wall, lych gate, stiles.
Boundary Wall, Lych Gate and Stiles to Churchyard to Church of St Mary Magdalen
- WRENN ID
- solitary-storey-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Forest of Dean
- Constituency
- Forest of Dean MP: Matt Bishop (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 March 1988
- Type
- Boundary wall, lych gate, stiles
- Address
- Boundary Wall, Lych Gate and Stiles to Churchyard to Church of St Mary Magdalen, Hewelsfield and Brockweir
- OS grid reference
- SO 567 020
- Coordinates
- 51.71589, -2.62726
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The boundary wall, lych gate, and stiles to the churchyard of the Church of St Mary Magdalen are notable features from the 20th century. The churchyard wall is made of rough squared drystone rubble, lacking capping or coping, and varies in height from approximately 800mm to 1.5m. To the east and south, there are built-in upright sandstone slab stiles, which can be accessed via rough stone steps. A third stile may exist to the north, but at the time of the survey in December 1983, this area was overgrown with ivy.
The main entrance is located on the west side and features a wide gabled lych gate constructed from coursed stone, topped with a stone slate roof. The roof is supported by deep wooden lintels resting on brackets that sit on stone corbels. There are a pair of wooden gates and a small swing gate located to the left and outside the main structure. This site is an example of a roughly oval enclosure, likely indicating a Celtic origin, and is similar to the enclosure at the Church of St Andrew in Woolaston. The boundary wall, lych gate, and stiles are included in the register primarily for their historical significance.
Local climate
Boundary Wall, Lych Gate and Stiles to Churchyard to Church of St Mary Magdalen receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
- 1 Lychgate and Churchyard Walls at Church of St Mary
- 2 The Lych Gate and South Boundary Wall, Churchyard of Saint Mary
- 3 Lych Gate and Attached Churchyard Wall to South of Church of St Mary Magdalene
- 4 Lychgate, Gates and Churchyard Wall South and West of the Church of St Mary
- 5 Lychgate and Churchyard Wall to St Mary's Church
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings