Walls, Gates and Railings to North South and East of Chutch of Holy Trinity is a Grade II listed building in the Sunderland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1994. Churchyard boundary.
Walls, Gates and Railings to North South and East of Chutch of Holy Trinity
- WRENN ID
- silver-stair-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sunderland
- Constituency
- Sunderland Central MP: Lewis Atkinson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 October 1994
- Type
- Churchyard boundary
- Address
- Walls, Gates and Railings to North South and East of Chutch of Holy Trinity, Church Bank
- OS grid reference
- NZ 382 585
- Coordinates
- 54.92025, -1.40516
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The walls, gates, and railings surrounding the Church of Holy Trinity in Sunderland date from the 19th century and are designated as a group value context. The churchyard walls enclose three sides of the churchyard, with gates, piers, and railings located on the east side. The western wall has been rebuilt due to road improvements that truncated the churchyard.
The walls are constructed from limestone rubble with sandstone ashlar coping, while the piers are made of ashlar. The northern and southern walls feature limestone and sandstone rubble, with some areas patched with brick and topped with gabled ashlar coping. The eastern wall, which faces Church Bank, has an ashlar top course and gabled coping, supported by angled rear walls for the railings.
The square piers have plinths and stepped gabled coping, and the gates are adorned with pierced roundel finials on the frame uprights, along with bud and spike dog bar finials, although many of the gate finials are damaged. The railings are spike-headed and feature scroll finials on some of the principal uprights.
Local climate
Walls, Gates and Railings to North South and East of Chutch of Holy Trinity sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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