Lychgate at Church of St Michael is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 25 April 2002. Lychgate.
Lychgate at Church of St Michael
- WRENN ID
- haunted-railing-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Constituency
- Cardiff South and Penarth MP: Stephen Doughty (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 25 April 2002
- Type
- Lychgate
- Address
- Lychgate at Church of St Michael, Michaelston-Le-Pit, Cardiff, Michaelston-Le-Pit and Leckwith
- OS grid reference
- ST 151 729
- Coordinates
- 51.44957, -3.22202
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The lychgate at the Church of St Michael incorporates a war memorial and is constructed from unstained oak. The base or plinth extends from the churchyard wall and is stepped up. It features narrow wooden double gates with pierced lancets and quatrefoils, long decorative hinges, and a moulded and swept top rail. The gabled roof is covered with slate and has deeply overhanging sprocketed eaves. The main doorway is Tudor-arched and is flanked by similar pierced lancets, which are decorated with carved bunches of grapes at the upper corners. An inscription from St John's gospel is located over the lintel, and there is a further inscription on the crossed timbers attached to the boarded gable, which is pierced by quatrefoils on the sides and has a cross at the apex. The side walls consist of panels of pierced lancets and quatrefoils, divided by plain battered panels. The west gable end mirrors the east but features seven quatrefoils above instead of the inscription.
Inside the porch, there are panelled pews against the side walls, and a metal plaque commemorates those who died in the First World War.
Local climate
Lychgate at Church of St Michael sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 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 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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