Lych Gate Approximately 20 Metres to West of Church of St Thomas is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. Lych-gate.
Lych Gate Approximately 20 Metres to West of Church of St Thomas
- WRENN ID
- floating-corbel-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Lych-gate
- OS grid reference
- SX 535 903
- Coordinates
- 50.6939, -4.07474
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This lych gate, located approximately 20 metres to the west of the Church of St Thomas, features elements from the 17th century that may have been reused or remodeled in the 19th century. The structure has dressed granite walls that extend towards the church and are topped with chamfered coping stones. Additionally, there is a 19th-century iron overthrow with a hook for a lamp and an iron gate situated below.
Local climate
Lych Gate Approximately 20 Metres to West of Church of St Thomas sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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