Lychgate to Church of St Cuthbert is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1988. Lychgate.
Lychgate to Church of St Cuthbert
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-finial-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Thirsk and Malton MP: Kevin Hollinrake (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1988
- Type
- Lychgate
- Address
- Lychgate to Church of St Cuthbert, Church Lane, Sessay
- OS grid reference
- SE 464 747
- Coordinates
- 54.1661, -1.29064
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lychgate to the Church of St Cuthbert, built in 1848 by William Butterfield for Viscount Downe, is a notable structure made of coursed rubble with ashlar dressings and timber, topped with a wood-shingle roof. It consists of two bays, featuring a gateway on the north side and a boiler house on the south. The design includes quoins, a chamfered plinth, and offset buttresses, with each bay having its own roof.
The gateway has later wooden gates that are not of special interest, and a low stone side wall that supports posts with arched braces to the plate. The central braces are cusped, creating a pointed-arched opening. The timber frame supports a hipped roof with gablets oriented along the east-west axis. The boiler house features a boarded door within a quoined, chamfered, pointed-arched surround on the east side, two quoined slit windows on the south side, and a ridge stack at the north end, with the roof being half-hipped at the south end.
Local climate
Lychgate to Church of St Cuthbert receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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