Chipstable Memorial Lych Gate is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 January 2017. Lych gate.
Chipstable Memorial Lych Gate
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 January 2017
- Type
- Lych gate
- Address
- Chipstable Memorial Lych Gate, Churchyard of the Church of All Saints, Taunton, TA4 2PZ
- OS grid reference
- ST 042 270
- Coordinates
- 51.03519, -3.36637
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Chipstable Memorial Lych Gate is a First World War memorial, built around 1919 or 1920. It features an oak-framed structure that rests on flank walls and a plinth made of local stone that is coursed, cut, and squared. The roof is upswept and gabled, covered with plain tiles. The northern and southern gabled ends are similar, each with unglazed lancet windows on either side of the gateway, decorative piercings in the bargeboards, and topped with a wooden finial. The southern side includes half-height oak gates adorned with fine metal straps. The upright posts support braced tie beams, with angled struts above that hold the collar. Attached to the southern tie beam is a slender commemorative plaque, possibly made of bronze, inscribed in raised lettering with "IN MEMORIUM 1914–1918." The timber framing on the western and eastern sides forms an arcade with pointed-arched heads.
Local climate
Chipstable Memorial Lych Gate receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1998
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