Walls Gates and Gate Piers in Front of United Reformed Church and Attached Railings Flanking Entrances is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1980. Gate structure.

Walls Gates and Gate Piers in Front of United Reformed Church and Attached Railings Flanking Entrances

WRENN ID
graven-fireplace-russet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Calderdale
Constituency
Calder Valley MP: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 July 1980
Type
Gate structure
Address
Walls Gates and Gate Piers in Front of United Reformed Church and Attached Railings Flanking Entrances, Burnley Road
OS grid reference
SE 039 244
Coordinates
53.71674, -1.94095
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The walls, gates, and gate piers in front of the United Reformed Church, along with the attached railings flanking the entrances, were built in 1859. They are constructed from coursed stone and ashlar, featuring cast-iron gates and railings. The gate piers that flank the entrances to the church are made of monolithic ashlar, complete with necking, cornices, and pyramidal caps. The dwarf walls are ramped and topped with pointed ashlar coping, although the railings have been removed. The central gates showcase heavy ironwork, with a bottom rail featuring circles and a lower panel adorned with scroll and leaf motifs. The gates include both single and paired bars decorated with vase, roundel, and acanthus-type motifs, topped with bulbous finials. The railings that flank the balcony to The Manse and Chapel House consist of single and paired bars set on roundels, with bulbous arrow finials. The gate posts are designed with acanthus bases, entasis, and knob finials, while the standards are fluted with entasis.

Local climate

Walls Gates and Gate Piers in Front of United Reformed Church and Attached Railings Flanking Entrances 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 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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