St John's Cemetery North Entrance Gates, Piers, Walls and Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Newcastle upon Tyne local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1971. Cemetery gateway.
St John's Cemetery North Entrance Gates, Piers, Walls and Railings
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-sandstone-sorrel
- 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
- 17 December 1971
- Type
- Cemetery gateway
- Address
- St John's Cemetery North Entrance Gates, Piers, Walls and Railings, Elswick Road
- OS grid reference
- NZ 225 638
- Coordinates
- 54.96883, -1.64906
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St John's Cemetery north entrance gates, piers, walls, and railings were constructed around 1856 by Johnstone and Knowles. The structure is made of sandstone ashlar and cast iron. It features a Tudor arch with a string course and a gabled, crocketed parapet, flanked by tall octagonal piers that have gabled coping and high octagonal gabled pinnacles. The flanking piers for the pedestrian gates also have gabled coping. Both the vehicle and pedestrian gates are designed with gothic tracery and include spearhead standards and dog bars. The quadrant walls have rounded coping topped with spear-headed railings and low, spiked dog bars. Above the entrance, there is a scroll inscribed with "ST. JOHN'S/CEMETERY/ELSWICK."
Local climate
St John's Cemetery North Entrance Gates, Piers, Walls and Railings 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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