Walls, Gates and Piers in Front of Church of St Cuthbert is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 January 1987. Wall, gate, pier.

Walls, Gates and Piers in Front of Church of St Cuthbert

WRENN ID
fading-gutter-fog
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Blaydon and Consett MP: Liz Twist (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 January 1987
Type
Wall, gate, pier
Address
Walls, Gates and Piers in Front of Church of St Cuthbert, Church Bank
OS grid reference
NZ 093 526
Coordinates
54.86842, -1.8564
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The walls, gates, and piers in front of the Church of St. Cuthbert were built around 1850 by John Dobson. They feature sandstone rubble walls topped with ashlar coping and square ashlar coarse sandstone piers. The coursed rubble walls have low-sloped coping and end in square piers with pyramidal copings. The gate piers are square and chamfered, adorned with blind trefoil decoration beneath roll-moulded gabled coping. The gates consist of wrought iron railings with spear finials, connected by Gothic-arched bars that display floral decoration, along with cast-iron dogbars featuring spearheads.

Local climate

Walls, Gates and Piers in Front of Church of St Cuthbert receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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