Churchyard gates and walls at St James' Church is a Grade II listed building in the South Derbyshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1987. Churchyard gates and walls.
Churchyard gates and walls at St James' Church
- WRENN ID
- gilded-moulding-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Derbyshire
- Constituency
- South Derbyshire MP: Samantha Niblett (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 March 1987
- Type
- Churchyard gates and walls
- Address
- Churchyard gates and walls at St James' Church, Church Lane, Swarkestone
- OS grid reference
- SK 371 285
- Coordinates
- 52.85357, -1.44939
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The churchyard gates and walls at St James' Church date from the late 18th century and early 19th century. They feature rubble stone walls and ashlar gatepiers with iron gates. The rubble stone retaining walls have triangular sectioned rubble copings that encircle the churchyard. On the west side, the walls rise to a pair of plain tapering stone gate piers topped with moulded cornices. Between these piers are a pair of plain semi-circular headed gates adorned with fleur-de-lys finials, and above them is a simple scrolled overthrow. This structure is included for its group value.
Local climate
Churchyard gates and walls at St James' Church 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 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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