War Memorial Lych Gate is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 2016. Lych gate.
War Memorial Lych Gate
- WRENN ID
- eternal-sill-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Bridgwater MP: Sir Ashley Fox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 October 2016
- Type
- Lych gate
- Address
- War Memorial Lych Gate, Entrance to Former Church of St Mary, Charlynch, Spaxton, TA5 1BL
- OS grid reference
- ST 238 377
- Coordinates
- 51.13438, -3.0902
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The War Memorial Lych Gate is a churchyard structure built around 1945. It features a timber-frame construction with a plain tiled roof and stone rubble flank walls at its lower body. Located to the southwest of the former Church of St Mary, which closed in 1981, the lych gate has square corner uprights that rest on the stone walls. The western and eastern gabled ends are similar, showcasing arched braces at the corner posts that support slender tie beams. The roof is constructed with king post trusses, angled struts, and queen posts. The tie beam on the western gabled end bears the inscription "1939 ERECTED BY THE PARISH AS A THANKSGIVING 1945," while the eastern tie beam is inscribed "HE BROUGHT THEM OUT SAFELY." Additionally, there are a pair of low wooden gates at the western gabled end and freestanding wooden benches inside the lych gate.
Local climate
War Memorial Lych Gate receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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