Lychgate to Parish Church is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 22 June 2000. Lychgate.
Lychgate to Parish Church
- WRENN ID
- vast-wicket-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Monmouthshire
- Constituency
- Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 22 June 2000
- Type
- Lychgate
- Address
- Lychgate to Parish Church, Llantrissent/Llantrisant, Usk, Llantrisant Fawr
- OS grid reference
- ST 391 969
- Coordinates
- 51.66777, -2.88101
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The lychgate to the parish church is a Grade II listed structure built with a timber frame on a rubble stone base. It features low rubble stone side walls with battered returns at each end, topped with sandstone coping. Inside, there are wooden benches and paired oak front gates that have a top rail that ramps down. The upper part of the gate is made of oak and includes paired posts on each side; the outer posts have brackets that support the bargeboards, while the inner posts flank a Tudor-arched lintel with a pendant under a brattished collar beam.
An inscription on the front reads, "Teach me to live that I may dread the grave as little as my bed," and on the rear, it states, "Teach me to die that I may rise glorious at the awful day." Above, the open framing is supported by a row of seven curved brackets that carry a jettied moulded collar and studding, along with bargeboards and a pendant. The roof is covered with plain tiles. The sides of the lychgate have vertical studs with small spandrel pieces, and two longitudinal arch braces inside support the rafter roof and the central collar truss.
Local climate
Lychgate to Parish Church 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 greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% 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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