West Gateway, Walls and Gates of St Nicholas Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Newcastle upon Tyne local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1987. Cemetery gate.
West Gateway, Walls and Gates of St Nicholas Cemetery
- WRENN ID
- rooted-steel-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Constituency
- Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West MP: Dame Chi Onwurah (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1987
- Type
- Cemetery gate
- Address
- West Gateway, Walls and Gates of St Nicholas Cemetery, Wingrove Avenue
- OS grid reference
- NZ 227 649
- Coordinates
- 54.97855, -1.64591
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The West Gateway, walls, and gates of St. Nicholas Cemetery were built in 1857 and feature a Gothic style. The structure includes sandstone ashlar piers and snecked sandstone walls topped with ashlar coping, along with wrought iron gates. The vehicle entrance is marked by two tall octagonal piers, each adorned with four gabled side buttresses that have cusped panels. The piers have steeply-sloped overlapping coping with a top quatrefoil band, and large seahorse finials that support shields facing across the gate. The left shield depicts a shipwreck on rocks in low relief, while the right shield shows a ship in full sail. The gateway on the left has a shouldered head with carved flowers in the spandrels and a date panel above, set under a raised brattished panel. The walls feature steeply-sloped overlapping coping that continues from the piers, and the Gothic arcaded gates are topped with fleur-de-lis finials.
Local climate
West Gateway, Walls and Gates of St Nicholas Cemetery 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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