Lych Gate and Churchyard Wall, Incorporating Drinking Trough and Belvedere, to West of St Michael's Church is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1984. Lych gate and wall.
Lych Gate and Churchyard Wall, Incorporating Drinking Trough and Belvedere, to West of St Michael's Church
- WRENN ID
- grim-arch-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 August 1984
- Type
- Lych gate and wall
- Address
- Lych Gate and Churchyard Wall, Incorporating Drinking Trough and Belvedere, to West of St Michael's Church, Arlecdon and Frizington
- OS grid reference
- NY 051 198
- Coordinates
- 54.56482, -3.46808
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lych gate and churchyard wall, built around 1903, are located to the west of St Michael's Church. The low ashlar wall is approximately 3 feet high. The wooden superstructure of the gate is splayed and stands on battered ashlar plinths, which include integral stone benches on their inner sides. The woodwork features Gothic cusping and an inscription. The roof is made of graduated slate and has a cross in a small gabled opening at the center front. To the left, there is a drinking trough in a niche, which has a semicircular bowl and an inscription above it. The belvedere at the corner has entrances from both the roadside and the churchyard, featuring two circular-plan projections with a stone bench at the rear. Adjoining the belvedere to the west is a castellated snecked rubble wall that has a drum-shaped end pier with a battered plinth and a conical cap.
Local climate
Lych Gate and Churchyard Wall, Incorporating Drinking Trough and Belvedere, to West of St Michael's Church sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,540 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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