Gate, Gate Piers and Flanking Walls Approximately 78 Metres to South West of Church of Saint Bartholomew is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 October 1986. Gate and flanking walls.
Gate, Gate Piers and Flanking Walls Approximately 78 Metres to South West of Church of Saint Bartholomew
- WRENN ID
- final-marble-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- North Shropshire MP: Helen Morgan (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 October 1986
- Type
- Gate and flanking walls
- OS grid reference
- SJ 560 232
- Coordinates
- 52.80456, -2.65361
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gate, gate piers, and flanking walls are located approximately 78 metres to the south-west of the Church of Saint Bartholomew and date from the mid-18th century. The structure features a pair of painted ashlar piers, each with a moulded plinth, raised and fielded panels, a moulded cornice, and a large globe finial. The right-hand pier has a painted inscription that reads: "WAYFARERS/WELCOME/FROM AN/OPEN ROAD/TO AN/OPEN CHURCH".
There is a late 19th-century wrought-iron gate with dogbars, a dograil, and curved braces. The flanking walls are made of roughly dressed red and grey sandstone, each approximately 35 metres long and half a metre high, curving out towards square end piers topped with pyramidal caps. The coping is chamfered and has globe finials at intervals, although some finials were missing at the time of the survey in January 1986. The right-hand end pier includes a largely illegible inscribed stone, while the left-hand pier has a late 19th-century post box.
The walls contain fragments of dressed and carved medieval masonry, likely reused from the Church of Saint Bartholomew during its alterations and enlargement in the mid-18th century. It appears that the walls were constructed in two sections, with the shorter sections built first, followed by the straight lengths, as indicated by the straight joints.
Local climate
Gate, Gate Piers and Flanking Walls Approximately 78 Metres to South West of Church of Saint Bartholomew receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% 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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