The Lych Gate is a Grade II listed building in the Stroud local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 August 1990. Lych gate.
The Lych Gate
- WRENN ID
- muffled-pavement-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stroud
- Constituency
- North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 August 1990
- Type
- Lych gate
- Address
- The Lych Gate, New Street, Painswick
- OS grid reference
- SO 865 096
- Coordinates
- 51.78524, -2.19594
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Lych Gate is a structure built between 1901 and 1902, funded by Frances Sarah Williams. It features a half-timbered design with flush pilaster panels and a stone slate roof. The building has a cross-gabled shape and includes an upper room supported by an open timber structure on four by five posts set on stone bases. Facing the road, there is a two-light wood mullioned casement window and a decorative barge-board. The plaster panels display various inscriptions, including "Rejoice in the Lord" with musical notation, and the barge-board is marked "E.R.VIII". Inside, there is an inscription stating "Built of the Old Belfry Timber HDCCCCI-II". On the side facing the churchyard, there is a four-bay opening on a stone breast wall with a bench seat. This side also features the inscription "WHS Vicar ET and CF Churchwardens 1901. Victoria Reg Imp Requiat in Pace/Edouard Rex Imp/Requiet in Pace/Built at the charges of Mrs Frances Sarah Williams 1901". Above the passageway, there is a parish room or office.
Local climate
The Lych Gate receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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