Gateway at Entrance to Manchester Southern Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1994. Gateway.

Gateway at Entrance to Manchester Southern Cemetery

WRENN ID
sharp-chimney-soot
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Manchester
Constituency
Manchester Withington MP: Jeff Smith (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 June 1994
Type
Gateway
Address
Gateway at Entrance to Manchester Southern Cemetery, Barlow Moor Road, M21 7GL
OS grid reference
SJ 827 923
Coordinates
53.42768, -2.26125
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The gateway at the entrance to Manchester Southern Cemetery, built around 1879, features a set of six gatepiers and gates in a Gothic style. The gatepiers are made of sandstone ashlar and are complemented by wrought-iron gates. The inner pair of gatepiers is taller than the two outer pairs, and all have chamfered bases, broach stops at the recessed corners, and traceried gablets on all faces. Each pier is topped with short octagonal spirelets that have cusped panels. The central double gates and the single pedestrian gates are adorned with wrought-iron open-work, including trefoil tracery and quatrefoil panels. This gateway forms a group with the associated Registrar's Office to the west and the lodge to the east.

Local climate

Gateway at Entrance to Manchester Southern Cemetery sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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