Walls and Railings Around the Church of St Thomas is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 March 1995. Walls and railings.
Walls and Railings Around the Church of St Thomas
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-landing-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Lancaster and Wyre MP: Cat Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 March 1995
- Type
- Walls and railings
- Address
- Walls and Railings Around the Church of St Thomas, Penny Street
- OS grid reference
- SD 477 614
- Coordinates
- 54.04627, -2.79948
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The walls and railings around the Church of St Thomas were constructed between 1840 and 1841 by Edmund Sharpe. Made from sandstone ashlar and cast iron, the structure features four gate piers and gates within a churchyard wall. The piers rise five steps above the pavement and are set within a recessed entrance, with walls that curve back in quadrants. They are octagonal and resemble the turrets on the west front of the church. Each face of the piers includes a shafted lancet topped with a continuous hoodmould, beneath a band of dogtooth ornament that supports a pyramidal spirelet with an ornate finial. On the two central piers, the finials have been replaced by lamps, which were broken at the time of the survey. The cast-iron gates are double in the center and single on the sides, adorned with a row of trefoils at the top and bottom, along with a cresting of small finials. The railings atop the walls feature roll-topped saddlebacked copings and simple spearheads.
Local climate
Walls and Railings Around the Church of St Thomas sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,370 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
- 1 Churchyard Railings, Gates and Gate Piers to North of Church of St Thomas
- 2 Walls and Railings to St James's Church
- 3 Boundary Walls and Gate Piers to Church of St Thomas
- 4 Walls, Railings and Gateway to Church of St Thomas A Becket
- 5 Gate Piers, Gates, Overthrow, Walls and Railings East of Church of St John the Evangelist
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings