South Entrance Including Gates, Piers and Railings to Bishopwearmouth Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Sunderland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1994. Cemetery entrance. 1 related planning application.

South Entrance Including Gates, Piers and Railings to Bishopwearmouth Cemetery

WRENN ID
western-span-finch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Sunderland
Constituency
Sunderland Central MP: Lewis Atkinson (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 October 1994
Type
Cemetery entrance
Address
South Entrance Including Gates, Piers and Railings to Bishopwearmouth Cemetery, Chester Road
OS grid reference
NZ 375 561
Coordinates
54.89884, -1.4154
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The south entrance, including gates, piers, and railings to Bishopwearmouth Cemetery, was built in 1856 by Thomas Moore. This entrance features painted cast-iron piers and railings, with ashlar piers supporting the flanking walls and brick dwarf walls topped with ashlar coping. The design is in the Perpendicular style. The open octagonal cast-iron gate piers have a central ornamental band and brattished decoration on the high swept coping, which is adorned with bud finials. The gates include dog bars beneath a pierced quatrefoil band and lozenge-shaped bud finials. Serpentine walls with chamfered ashlar coping support the railings, which ramp up to the piers and feature a similar pierced band above shorter dog bars, along with matching finials. Painted ashlar octagonal piers flank the serpentine entrance walls and also display brattished ornament on the high coping.

Local climate

South Entrance Including Gates, Piers and Railings to Bishopwearmouth Cemetery 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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