Lych gate at south entrance to churchyard, Church of St Peter and St Paul is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 February 1986. Lych gate. 1 related planning application.
Lych gate at south entrance to churchyard, Church of St Peter and St Paul
- WRENN ID
- haunted-bronze-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 February 1986
- Type
- Lych gate
- Address
- Lych gate at south entrance to churchyard, Church of St Peter and St Paul, Church Road, North Curry
- OS grid reference
- ST 319 254
- Coordinates
- 51.02459, -2.97179
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lych gate at the south entrance to the churchyard of the Church of St Peter and St Paul was built in 1930 by W D Caröe in memory of Mrs Luard's husband and son. It is made of dressed local sandstone and features a gambrel roof covered with graduated stone slates, along with pierced wooden infill at the gablet ends.
The gate has a two-bay roof, with the north front facing the churchyard. The south front includes set-back buttresses with offsets that reach to the eaves. It has a flat wooden lintel supported by corbelled wooden uprights, low wooden double gates adorned with wrought iron cresting, and four-light openings on the returns that are pierced by a double row of turned balusters. The north front features a depressed segmental arch. Inside, a tie beam is inscribed with the names of Charles Willard Hagley Luard, born March 1914 and died 1928, and his father Major Charles Luard, who died in September 1914. This lych gate is noted for its good design.
Local climate
Lych gate at south entrance to churchyard, Church of St Peter and St Paul receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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