Church Lychgate is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 January 1967. A Medieval Church lychgate.
Church Lychgate
- WRENN ID
- last-footing-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Scarborough and Whitby MP: Alison Hume (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 January 1967
- Type
- Church lychgate
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church Lychgate, A 170, Wykeham
- OS grid reference
- SE 964 833
- Coordinates
- 54.23694, -0.52165
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church Lychgate is a tower that was originally part of St Helen's Chapel of Ease, dating from the 14th century. It has been restored in 1853-54, during which a spire was added by William Butterfield. The structure is made of sandstone rubble with some restoration in sandstone ashlar, featuring a stone flag spire and a slate roof on the staircase extension.
The tower is designed in three stages and has offset diagonal buttresses, with a single-stage staircase extension on the north side. The lowest stage has double-chamfered pointed arches on both sides, supported by chamfered responds, with bar stops on the west and broach stops on the east. The second stage contains a single rectangular light, while the third stage features two-light louvred bell openings with trefoil tracery beneath pointed head-stopped hood-moulds. Chamfered string courses run along the second and third stages. The tower is topped with an octagonal broach spire that includes lucarnes and a weather-vane, and there is a pent roof above the staircase extension.
Local climate
Church Lychgate receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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