Walls, Gates and Railings Around St Mary's Churchyard is a Grade II listed building in the Gateshead local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 August 1981. Walls.
Walls, Gates and Railings Around St Mary's Churchyard
- WRENN ID
- rooted-storey-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gateshead
- Constituency
- Gateshead Central and Whickham MP: Mark Ferguson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 August 1981
- Type
- Walls
- Address
- Walls, Gates and Railings Around St Mary's Churchyard, Church Street
- OS grid reference
- NZ 254 636
- Coordinates
- 54.96685, -1.60438
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The walls, gates, and railings surrounding St Mary's Churchyard date from the late 18th century and early 19th century. They are constructed partly of brick and partly of stone, featuring stone coping that supports spearhead wrought iron railings with iron stays. The structure includes five pairs of sturdy rusticated piers, each topped with cornices and ball finials, which hold wrought iron gates. Additionally, there are vernacular rusticated retaining walls located to the south-east.
Historically, Church Street was created in 1790 to provide a better gradient than Bottle Bank, but all the buildings along it, except for the church, were removed when the new Tyne Bridge was constructed between 1927 and 1929.
Local climate
Walls, Gates and Railings Around St Mary's Churchyard receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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