Churchyard Walls and Gates North and East of Church of St John is a Grade II listed building in the Sunderland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1978. Churchyard walls and gates.
Churchyard Walls and Gates North and East of Church of St John
- WRENN ID
- worn-footing-owl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sunderland
- Constituency
- Sunderland Central MP: Lewis Atkinson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 November 1978
- Type
- Churchyard walls and gates
- Address
- Churchyard Walls and Gates North and East of Church of St John, Ashbrooke Crescent
- OS grid reference
- NZ 395 559
- Coordinates
- 54.89633, -1.38454
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The churchyard walls and gates located to the north and east of the Church of St John were built around 1888 by R Curwen. These structures enclose the grounds of the Methodist church. They are made of rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings, featuring low walls that have chamfered ashlar coping. The walls, from which railings have been removed, are punctuated by wide piers topped with roll-moulded hipped coping. The entrances to the hall and church are marked by wrought-iron gates that include scrolled spandrels and decorative elements, spear-headed dog bars, intermediate bars, and twisted finials on the principal supports. An additional entrance to the southeast of the church currently has no gates.
Local climate
Churchyard Walls and Gates North and East of Church of St John 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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