Lych Gate and Coffin Rest at North East Entrance to Churchyard, Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1985. Lych gate.
Lych Gate and Coffin Rest at North East Entrance to Churchyard, Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- lunar-merlon-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1985
- Type
- Lych gate
- Address
- Lych Gate and Coffin Rest at North East Entrance to Churchyard, Church of St Mary, Cheddon Fitzpaine
- OS grid reference
- ST 243 276
- Coordinates
- 51.04282, -3.08098
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lych gate and coffin rest at the north-east entrance to the churchyard of the Church of St Mary in Cheddon Fitzpaine was built around 1920. It is constructed from flat bedded local stone and features buttresses and a plain clay tile roof. The structure is single storey and consists of one bay, with a semi-circular headed archway made of voussoirs and a barrel vault. The entrance front has a slab incised with a Celtic cross and a wooden gate adorned with wrought iron decorative cresting. Inside, there is a coffin rest made of flat bedded local stone, featuring an incised slab with a cross of fleur-de-lys. This lych gate is dedicated as a memorial to those who died in the 1914-18 war, with an inscribed tablet located on the interior east wall. The design is reminiscent of the work of Sir Edwin Lutyens at Hestercombe but cannot be directly attributed to him.
Local climate
Lych Gate and Coffin Rest at North East Entrance to Churchyard, Church of St Mary receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% 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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