Walls, steps, piers, railings and gates to south and west of Church of All Saints is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1987. Wall and gate.
Walls, steps, piers, railings and gates to south and west of Church of All Saints
- WRENN ID
- vacant-stair-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- North Durham MP: Luke Akehurst (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 June 1987
- Type
- Wall and gate
- Address
- Walls, steps, piers, railings and gates to south and west of Church of All Saints, Durham Road, Lanchester
- OS grid reference
- NZ 167 474
- Coordinates
- 54.82122, -1.74106
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The walls, steps, piers, railings, and gates located to the south and west of the Church of All Saints date from the 18th century, with 19th-century gates, overthrow, and railings. The structure features coursed sandstone rubble walls topped with roughly-dressed coping, as well as ashlar piers and steps. The gates, overthrow, and railings are made of wrought and cast iron.
A low wall with gabled coping surrounds the churchyard on the south and west sides, with wide entrances at the south-west and south-east, a narrow entrance immediately to the east of the south-west entrance, and another narrow entrance at the north-east.
The steps leading up to the wide entrance are flanked by tall, square, panelled piers that have moulded plinths, cornices, and tall pyramid finials on moulded feet. The gates are designed in a Gothic style, featuring fleur-de-lys heads on the principals and dog-bars, along with a lattice top band. The serpentine overthrow is decorated with twisted leaf motifs and has a raised centre topped with a cross finial.
There are two short flights of side steps to the right, accompanied by plain iron railings and a handrail, leading to the narrow entrance. The south-west entrance is marked by tooled square piers with pyramidal coping and fleur-de-lys headed gates.
Local climate
Walls, steps, piers, railings and gates to south and west of Church of All Saints receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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