North 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.

North Entrance Including Gates, Piers and Railings to Bishopwearmouth Cemetery

WRENN ID
waiting-loft-nightshade
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
North Entrance Including Gates, Piers and Railings to Bishopwearmouth Cemetery, Hylton Road
OS grid reference
NZ 373 566
Coordinates
54.90277, -1.41876
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The north entrance to Bishopwearmouth Cemetery, including its gates, piers, and railings, was built in 1856 by Thomas Moore. It features ashlar piers and dwarf walls, along with cast-iron piers and gates, as well as wrought-iron railings. The entrance is flanked by serpentine painted ashlar dwarf walls with chamfered coping. Tall octagonal gate piers are made from open panels and adorned with decorative central and top bands, topped with high swept octagonal coping that has brattished decoration and high bud finials. The railings have lozenge-shaped bud finials and a quatrefoil-pierced dog bar band. The gates also feature similar finials and a central band. The entrance railings end in painted ashlar octagonal piers with brattished ornament on high ogee-moulded coping.

Local climate

North 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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