Gate Piers to Church of St Matthew is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1983. Gate piers.

Gate Piers to Church of St Matthew

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Calderdale
Constituency
Calder Valley MP: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 December 1983
Type
Gate piers
Address
Gate Piers to Church of St Matthew, Wakefield Road
OS grid reference
SE 136 254
Coordinates
53.72527, -1.79442
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The gate piers to the Church of St. Matthew were built in 1875 and are made of ashlar stone. They feature octagonal shafts topped with crocketed pinnacled caps, which are flanked by a short, stubby wall that has Gothic-style coping.

Local climate

Gate Piers to Church of St Matthew sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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