Lych Gate to Church of St James is a Grade I listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 May 1971. Lych gate.
Lych Gate to Church of St James
- WRENN ID
- spare-merlon-moss
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 May 1971
- Type
- Lych gate
- Address
- Lych Gate to Church of St James, Wide Howe Lane, Baldersby
- OS grid reference
- SE 366 769
- Coordinates
- 54.18675, -1.44056
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lych gate to the Church of St James was built between 1856 and 1858 by William Butterfield for Viscount Downe of Baldersby Park. It is designed in the High Victorian style and constructed from snecked stone with red brick bands on the side walls, complemented by stone buttresses. The gate features wooden gates and a timber-framed structure with archways and a roof. The roof is tiled, and the gate is square in plan, with timber posts on stylobates that create a wide and a narrow opening between the stone flanking walls. The overall width is approximately 4 metres, with a double gate and a single gate. The gates consist of vertical bars that are 1.2 metres tall, alternating with shorter bars. The top edges of the bars are finished with hollow chamfers and blunt ends. The inner surface has horizontal bars, and the gates are fitted with original iron strap and clasp hinges, handles, and iron spikes designed in a fleur-de-lis pattern.
Local climate
Lych Gate to Church of St James receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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