Kissing Gate on East Side of Churchyard is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1987. Gate.
Kissing Gate on East Side of Churchyard
- WRENN ID
- sombre-gargoyle-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1987
- Type
- Gate
- Address
- Kissing Gate on East Side of Churchyard, Church Lane, Sharnbrook
- OS grid reference
- SP 993 596
- Coordinates
- 52.22583, -0.54684
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The kissing gate on the east side of the churchyard dates from around 1850 and was made by Williams of Bedford. It features cast-iron square piers with open scrollwork and concave conical tops. The single gate has decorative arrows above the top rail and a criss-cross pattern above the bottom rail. The curved enclosure railings also display arrows and rest on a plain stone base.
Local climate
Kissing Gate on East Side of Churchyard sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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