Churchyard Wall with Gates, Piers and War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. Wall, war memorial.
Churchyard Wall with Gates, Piers and War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- upper-moulding-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1987
- Type
- Wall, war memorial
- Address
- Churchyard Wall with Gates, Piers and War Memorial, Stanhope
- OS grid reference
- NY 996 391
- Coordinates
- 54.74763, -2.00653
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The churchyard wall, gates, piers, and War Memorial date from the mid-19th century and early 20th century. It is constructed of rubble and ashlar sandstone, with wrought iron elements. The wall features coursed rubble with tooled, chamfered coping. On the south side, there are chamfered square gate piers made of dressed stone, which include a plinth, broach stops, a torus band, and a stepped pyramidal cap topped with a ball finial. The gates have pointed standards, dog bars, and roundels in the top rail. An iron alms box is set into the wall to the left of the gates. Further to the left is a World War I memorial cross made of ashlar, positioned on a high plinth with a stepped base, inserted into a stepped opening in the wall. Another similar opening, located further left, displays a fossil tree. The wall encloses three sides of the churchyard.
Local climate
Churchyard Wall with Gates, Piers and War Memorial sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 38 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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