Churchyard wall with railings and gate piers to south and steps to north is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. Wall, gate, railings.
Churchyard wall with railings and gate piers to south and steps to north
- WRENN ID
- eternal-solder-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leeds
- Constituency
- Leeds Central and Headingley MP: Alex Sobel (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Wall, gate, railings
- Address
- Churchyard wall with railings and gate piers to south and steps to north, St Marks Road
- OS grid reference
- SE 295 351
- Coordinates
- 53.81165, -1.552
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The churchyard wall, with railings and gate piers to the south and steps to the north, is likely from around 1825 and was damaged around 1995. It features coursed stone walls, ashlar piers, and wrought-iron railings. The wall is approximately 450 meters long and varies in height, reaching about 2 meters high, especially along the north side, where it is topped by railings on the south side facing the road. A section of the wall measuring 2 meters was damaged by a car crash.
The steps on the north side are made of stone and are set into a steep bank, designed in a dogleg form. The octagonal piers have battlemented capstones, while the railings consist of alternating straight and wavy pointed rails. The low stone wall has chamfered coping and returns to form a flanking wall for about 4 meters along the church approach. A footpath connects the churchyard gates to the steps on the north side, which may have existed before the church was built. By the late 19th century, the area north of the church was densely populated with back-to-back housing. This structure is included for its group value.
Local climate
Churchyard wall with railings and gate piers to south and steps to north receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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