West Gates to St Boniface's Churchyard is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1989. Gate.
West Gates to St Boniface's Churchyard
- WRENN ID
- north-pavement-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1989
- Type
- Gate
- Address
- West Gates to St Boniface's Churchyard, Bowe's Gate Road, Bunbury
- OS grid reference
- SJ 568 580
- Coordinates
- 53.11829, -2.64588
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Three pairs of gates and piers, likely dating from the early 19th century but reconstructed around 1919 as a World War I memorial. The arrangement consists of a pair of tall sandstone ashlar piers that support the main gates, flanked by wicket gates and lower piers. The piers have ogee-moulded plinths. The main gate piers are recessed on their west faces to accommodate bronze war memorial name plates bearing the inscriptions "LIVE THOU FOR ENGLAND" and "THESE FOR ENGLAND DIED." These plates are surmounted by oak, lead, and acorn motifs, with the dates 1914, 1939, and 1919, and 1945 displayed above and below the names of those who died. The pier caps have ogee cornices and ball finials, and they support an overthrow of square rods with a tapering hexagonal lamp at the center. The lower piers have scotia-moulded caps with four-way weathered tops. The oak gates are divided into square panels by horizontal and vertical timbers, and the upper panels of the main gates feature cross bracing.
Local climate
West Gates to St Boniface's Churchyard receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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