Rowntree Park Memorial Gates is a Grade II* listed building in the York local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1983. Memorial gates.
Rowntree Park Memorial Gates
- WRENN ID
- vast-loft-mallow
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- York
- Constituency
- York Central MP: Rachael Maskell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 June 1983
- Type
- Memorial gates
- Address
- Rowntree Park Memorial Gates, Terry Avenue
- OS grid reference
- SE 604 506
- Coordinates
- 53.94819, -1.08031
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Rowntree Park Memorial Gates are a set of carriage and pedestrian gates, screen walls, railings, and terminal piers that form the main entrance to Rowntree Park in York. These gates date from the early 18th century and were installed at the Terry Avenue entrance in 1954. The screen walls are constructed of brick in stretcher bond with a flat stone coping, while the gates and railings are made of cast and wrought iron. The terminal piers are made of Portland stone and feature a concave curve in their design.
The double carriage gates and the flanking footgates include scrolled panels and mid rails decorated with arabesques and rinceaux. The supporting panel piers and cresting also utilize these decorative motifs. On either side, low screen walls support square-section railings with pointed finials, which ramp up to the gates. The rectangular terminal piers are approximately 3.0 meters high, with moulded bases and caps, and are topped with damaged figures of standing cherubs that are now headless.
Historically, these gates were acquired from an uncertain source and were established at the entrance to Rowntree Park as a memorial for the Second World War. The park itself serves as a memorial for the First World War.
Local climate
Rowntree Park Memorial Gates sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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