Lychgate at West Entrance to St Michael's Churchyard is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 August 1955. Lychgate.
Lychgate at West Entrance to St Michael's Churchyard
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 August 1955
- Type
- Lychgate
- Address
- Lychgate at West Entrance to St Michael's Churchyard, Ilsington, Teignbridge
- OS grid reference
- SX 785 761
- Coordinates
- 50.57221, -3.71697
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lychgate at the west entrance to St Michael's Churchyard was built in 1908 by Thomas Henry Lyon. It is constructed from granite rubble and timber framing, with the upper storey covered in roughcast. The roof is slated, and there is a rendered chimneystack on the right-hand gable wall, located on the front slope of the roof. The structure features an open ground storey with a chamber above. On the left side, it is built against the gable of St Michael's Cottages, while the right side has a thick stone wall.
The entrance is flanked by thick roughcast columns without bases, topped with simple granite capitals that have round drops beneath each corner. In the center, there is a pair of wooden gates set in a segmental-headed frame with open spandrels. The upper storey has canted bay windows on each face. To the right of the west front, there is a niche containing a stone statue of St. Michael. Adjacent to this is a slate panel inscribed 'Restored in 1977 to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II'. To the right of the gate, a flight of granite steps leads to the upper chamber. Beneath the gate, there are two stone tablets commemorating those who fell in the 1914-18 and 1939-45 wars.
Local climate
Lychgate at West Entrance to St Michael's Churchyard receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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