Entrance Gates, Piers and Front Railings to Sunderland 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.
Entrance Gates, Piers and Front Railings to Sunderland Cemetery
- WRENN ID
- peeling-terrace-vetch
- 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
- Entrance Gates, Piers and Front Railings to Sunderland Cemetery, Ryhope Road
- OS grid reference
- NZ 408 544
- Coordinates
- 54.88319, -1.36507
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The entrance gates, piers, and front railings to Sunderland Cemetery were built around 1858 and are made of walls, gate piers, railings, and gates in a municipal cemetery setting. The walls are constructed from snecked limestone with ashlar coping, while the piers are made of ashlar stone. The wrought-iron gates and railings feature a design that includes railings on chamfered ashlar coping along the street front of the cemetery, with quadrant sections flanking the entrance defined by piers. The tall chamfered square piers at the vehicle and pedestrian entrances have stepped plinths and moulded cornices topped with high hipped overlapping stone coping. There are blank shields set in panels on the front of the piers. The railings have cusped diagonal bracing between them, with trefoil leaves springing from the uprights above the bracing and as finials on the uprights. The vehicle and pedestrian gates are designed in a similar style, featuring low bracing and trefoil leaves that form dog bars.
Local climate
Entrance Gates, Piers and Front Railings to Sunderland 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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