Gateway to Rawtenstall Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Rossendale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1984. Gateway.
Gateway to Rawtenstall Cemetery
- WRENN ID
- buried-lime-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rossendale
- Constituency
- Rossendale and Darwen MP: Andy MacNae (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1984
- Type
- Gateway
- Address
- Gateway to Rawtenstall Cemetery, Burnley Road
- OS grid reference
- SD 812 233
- Coordinates
- 53.70587, -2.28585
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gateway to Rawtenstall Cemetery, dating from the late 19th century, features four stone piers and iron gates in a Gothic style. The piers are made of dressed sandstone, square in section, and approximately 3 metres high. They have slightly tapered pedestals, foliated shafts at the corners, an arcaded frieze, a hollow cornice adorned with ball flower ornament, and carved trefoil-faced caps that display crosses, flowers, crowns, and the letters "RC" on the outer ends. The gates are designed with ornamental open-work. There is a low boundary wall without railings, and originally matching piers at the outer ends of these walls are now damaged and not included in the listing.
Local climate
Gateway to Rawtenstall Cemetery sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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