Wall, Gatepiers and Gates Belonging to Old Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1987. Wall, gatepiers and gates.
Wall, Gatepiers and Gates Belonging to Old Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-ember-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1987
- Type
- Wall, gatepiers and gates
- Address
- Wall, Gatepiers and Gates Belonging to Old Church of St Mary, Bedford Street, Woburn
- OS grid reference
- SP 948 332
- Coordinates
- 51.98969, -0.61944
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The wall, gatepiers, and gates belonging to the Old Church of St Mary were built around 1830 by Edward Blore. They are made of ironstone with clunch dressings and are located on the west side of Bedford Street in Woburn. The structure runs approximately 45 metres long, adjoining the Lower School to the north and the Old Parsonage at the southern end.
On the left side, there is a gateway featuring four piers that create a central carriage entrance, flanked by two pedestrian gateways. The clunch piers are about 2 metres high and square in shape, with moulded bases, recessed panels that have cusped heads, moulded embattled cornices, and pyramidal caps. The cast iron gates are adorned with ornamental finials above the toprails and on the dograils of the lower sections. The churchyard wall is constructed of coursed ironstone with ashlar coping and stands about half a metre high. It appears that there were originally supporting piers and railings that matched the style of the gateway.
Local climate
Wall, Gatepiers and Gates Belonging to Old Church of St Mary sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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