Lychgate to Church of St Michael is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 21 January 1964. Lychgate.
Lychgate to Church of St Michael
- WRENN ID
- lone-belfry-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ceredigion
- Constituency
- Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 21 January 1964
- Type
- Lychgate
- Address
- Lychgate to Church of St Michael, Eglwys Fach, Machynlleth, Ysgubor-Y-Coed
- OS grid reference
- SN 686 954
- Coordinates
- 52.54141, -3.93894
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The lychgate to the Church of St Michael is a Grade II listed structure made of rubble stone, featuring slated roofs and coped shouldered gables. It has a gabled center flanked by low lean-tos on each side, which are blank with a raised plinth at the front and have 20th-century renewed doors at the back. The end walls also have coping. The center of the lychgate features a segmental-pointed arch and angle buttresses on both the front and rear. There is an added war memorial plaque from 1914-18 located in the eastern front apex. Inside, the lychgate has a rafter roof, a slate flag floor, and double wrought-iron gates with spearhead rails and dog-bars, with the top rails curving up to meet.
Local climate
Lychgate to Church of St Michael sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,290 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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