Wall with Gatepiers, Gates and Railings and 2 Flights of Steps to Front of Boulder Clough Bethel Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1988. Chapel entrance structure.
Wall with Gatepiers, Gates and Railings and 2 Flights of Steps to Front of Boulder Clough Bethel Chapel
- WRENN ID
- distant-wall-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Calderdale
- Constituency
- Calder Valley MP: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 July 1988
- Type
- Chapel entrance structure
- Address
- Wall with Gatepiers, Gates and Railings and 2 Flights of Steps to Front of Boulder Clough Bethel Chapel, Sowerby Lane
- OS grid reference
- SE 035 239
- Coordinates
- 53.71154, -1.94783
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The wall with gatepiers, gates, railings, and two flights of steps in front of Boulder Clough Bethel Chapel was built in 1897. It is made of coursed squared stone with ashlar coping, featuring wrought- and cast-iron gates and railings designed in an Arts and Crafts style. The paired gateways lead up steep flights of steps to a terrace in front of the chapel. The walls have quoins and chamfered coping, rising as piers on either side of the gateways. The coping on the right-hand piers rises into semi-circles adorned with a flower motif. The railings include rods with twist finials and scrolls flanking the standards, while the gates feature paired wavy bars, scrolled panels, and decorative scrolls at the tops. A single lamp standard remains on the left pier. The wall continues to the right, where it is taller and has triangular-sectioned coping stones. This structure is included for its group value.
Local climate
Wall with Gatepiers, Gates and Railings and 2 Flights of Steps to Front of Boulder Clough Bethel Chapel 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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