Gatepiers, Railings, Steps and Walls to Graveyard of St Michael and All Angels is a Grade II listed building in the Tameside local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 April 1977. Graveyard structures.
Gatepiers, Railings, Steps and Walls to Graveyard of St Michael and All Angels
- WRENN ID
- ghost-vestry-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tameside
- Constituency
- Stalybridge and Hyde MP: Jonathan Reynolds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 April 1977
- Type
- Graveyard structures
- Address
- Gatepiers, Railings, Steps and Walls to Graveyard of St Michael and All Angels, War Hill
- OS grid reference
- SJ 994 952
- Coordinates
- 53.45408, -2.01017
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gatepiers, railings, steps, and walls surrounding the graveyard of St. Michael and All Angels date from around 1815, with some elements from the 18th century. There are two pairs of gatepiers made of rusticated ashlar, featuring bases and cornices, with one pair topped by acorn finials. The iron railings next to the west gateposts end in a similar pier, and the gates are decorated with intricate ironwork.
To the west, there is a right-angled flight of stone steps, with parapet walls constructed of squared rubble. Two of the coping stones on these walls are dated 1857 and 1734. The graveyard walls are primarily made of squared rubble and hammer-dressed stone, with datestones from 1769, 1804, 1815, and 1823 incorporated into the structure. The round-topped coping stones are numbered consecutively from 1 to 33 on the west and east sides, and A to Z on the north, marking the layout of the graveyard plots. A weathered buttress supports the wall, which also serves as a retaining wall in some areas, located at the south-west corner.
Local climate
Gatepiers, Railings, Steps and Walls to Graveyard of St Michael and All Angels sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 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 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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