Lychgate to Church of Saint Matthew is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 March 2005. Lychgate.
Lychgate to Church of Saint Matthew
- WRENN ID
- lesser-jamb-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 31 March 2005
- Type
- Lychgate
- Address
- Lychgate to Church of Saint Matthew, Llandefalle, Brecon, Felin-Fach
- OS grid reference
- SO 108 355
- Coordinates
- 52.01141, -3.30094
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The lychgate to the Church of Saint Matthew features two side walls made of rubble stone, with inner benches. It has a gabled roof covered with stone tiles, and weatherboards at the front and rear gables. Inside, two roughly shaped wall-posts support a queen-strut truss in the center of the two-bay roof. There is a similar truss on the eastern side. The lychgate also has plain wooden gates.
Local climate
Lychgate to Church of Saint Matthew 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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