Lychgate to Llansantffraid Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 2 March 2004. Lychgate.

Lychgate to Llansantffraid Cemetery

WRENN ID
iron-wicket-heron
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
2 March 2004
Type
Lychgate
Address
Lychgate to Llansantffraid Cemetery, Llansantffraid-Ym-Mechain Village
OS grid reference
SJ 217 203
Coordinates
52.77468, -3.16146
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The lychgate to Llansantffraid Cemetery is a stone structure built from sneck-coursed yellow sandstone, featuring a pyramidal red tile roof topped with a pole finial. It is supported by large curling iron brackets at the eaves on all sides. The lychgate has wide openings at the front and rear, with double timber gates located only at the front. The front and rear walls extend slightly into buttresses. There are slit windows on each side of the entrances at the front and rear, and a single slit window on each side. Inside, there is a side bench with cupboard space underneath.

Local climate

Lychgate to Llansantffraid Cemetery receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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