Lych Gate and Churchyard Walls, Church of St Michael is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1984. Lych gate, churchyard walls.
Lych Gate and Churchyard Walls, Church of St Michael
- WRENN ID
- seventh-casement-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 November 1984
- Type
- Lych gate, churchyard walls
- Address
- Lych Gate and Churchyard Walls, Church of St Michael, the Cross, Buckland Dinham
- OS grid reference
- ST 754 512
- Coordinates
- 51.25984, -2.35258
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lych gate and attached churchyard walls at the Church of St. Michael date from the mid-19th century. The lych gate is an open wooden structure designed in the Gothic style, featuring a steeply pitched stone slate roof. It has a broad central gateway with a pointed arch and narrow trefoil-headed openings on each side, with 20th-century gates that match the style. The churchyard walls are made of rubble with flat dressed coping, standing 1.3 meters high and extending 77 meters to the west and 25 meters to the east.
Local climate
Lych Gate and Churchyard Walls, Church of St Michael receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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