Lychgate at entrance to Churchyard of Church of St Mary the Blessed Virgin is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 6 October 1977. Lychgate.

Lychgate at entrance to Churchyard of Church of St Mary the Blessed Virgin

WRENN ID
inner-joist-larch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cardiff
Constituency
Cardiff West MP: Mr Alex Barros-Curtis (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
6 October 1977
Type
Lychgate
Address
Lychgate at entrance to Churchyard of Church of St Mary the Blessed Virgin, St Fagans, St. Fagans
OS grid reference
ST 120 772
Coordinates
51.48697, -3.26748
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The lychgate at the entrance to the churchyard of the Church of St Mary the Blessed Virgin is built with squared limestone walls and features a Welsh slate gabled roof. The roof has a scissors truss and an arch-braced king post at each end, along with trefoil-headed arcading between the roof and the side walls. There is a cross on the outer face of the gable, and a pair of wooden gates is located on the south-west side.

Local climate

Lychgate at entrance to Churchyard of Church of St Mary the Blessed Virgin sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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