Lychgate to Church of St Bilo is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 17 January 1963. Lychgate.
Lychgate to Church of St Bilo
- WRENN ID
- north-chapel-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 17 January 1963
- Type
- Lychgate
- Address
- Lychgate to Church of St Bilo, Llanfilo, Brecon, Felin-Fach
- OS grid reference
- SO 119 332
- Coordinates
- 51.99056, -3.28416
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The lychgate to the Church of St Bilo is a structure featuring two rubble stone walls that support a stone-tiled roof with gables at each end. Each gable includes an oak tie-beam and a kingpost small truss set into the stonework. Timber lintels span the distance between the walls. On the south wall, there is a plaque commemorating repairs. The lychgate has early 20th-century wooden boarded gates with metal strap hinges and decorative scrolled cresting, along with an early 20th-century single gate located to the right of the lychgate.
Local climate
Lychgate to Church of St Bilo sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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