Gateway, Approach Walls and South Wall to St Michael's Churchyard is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 October 1987. Gateway and walls.

Gateway, Approach Walls and South Wall to St Michael's Churchyard

WRENN ID
old-cobble-thyme
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 October 1987
Type
Gateway and walls
Address
Gateway, Approach Walls and South Wall to St Michael's Churchyard, Barningham
OS grid reference
NZ 085 103
Coordinates
54.48833, -1.86957
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The gateway, approach walls, and south wall to St. Michael's Churchyard are notable structures located in Barningham Village. The gateway, built in the later 19th century, features tooled ashlar stonework and wrought-iron gates. The walls consist of coursed rubble with some cut dressings, reflecting various constructions from the 18th and 19th centuries. The gateway is designed with patterned double gates set within a double-chamfered pointed archway, which includes foliage stops on the hoodmould.

There is a memorial inscription dedicated to Lady Augusta Milbank, who died in 1874, located in a quatrefoil panel beneath a coped gable topped with a cross fleury finial. The flat-coped walls, which are approximately 2.5 meters high, line the approach lane to the churchyard. At the far end of the left wall, there is a boarded door with a lintel dated 1840, along with late 19th-century attached piers that have gabled tops. Additionally, part of a medieval cross slab is built into the wall beside the left pier.

On the south side of the churchyard, a similar wall extends 15 meters east of the entry and continues west to the south-west corner of the churchyard. Set against the wall to the west of the entry are four 18th-century headstones and two medieval slabs, one of which features a six-arm cross, a sword, and an unidentified object.

Local climate

Gateway, Approach Walls and South Wall to St Michael's Churchyard receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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