Lychgate at Church of St Melyd is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 12 September 2001. Lychgate.
Lychgate at Church of St Melyd
- WRENN ID
- dim-sill-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Denbighshire
- Constituency
- Clwyd East MP: Becky Gittins (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 12 September 2001
- Type
- Lychgate
- Address
- Lychgate at Church of St Melyd, Meliden, Prestatyn
- OS grid reference
- SJ 062 810
- Coordinates
- 53.31829, -3.4082
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The lychgate at the Church of St Melyd is a timber-framed structure built on high stone side walls. It features a slate roof with gables at the front and rear, prominent carved bargeboards, and small finials. The walls are made of axe-dressed stone and are connected to the rubble masonry churchyard wall.
The central timber frame includes a tie beam and cusped braces above. The timber framing on either side of the walls is designed in six panels, with braces at the top of two of the studs. The main posts at the front and rear have curved braces supporting the tie beams. Above the tie beam, the gables are vertically studded. The front tie beam is carved with the wording 'Church of St Melyd' in raised letters, which is painted white. The original gates feature a midrail and a down-curved toprail, with iron trefoil cresting on both rails.
Local climate
Lychgate at Church of St Melyd sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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