Railings on East Side of Church of St Edmund is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1972. Railings.
Railings on East Side of Church of St Edmund
- WRENN ID
- gilded-kitchen-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 July 1972
- Type
- Railings
- Address
- Railings on East Side of Church of St Edmund, Westgate Street, Bury St. Edmunds
- OS grid reference
- TL 853 637
- Coordinates
- 52.24088, 0.71328
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The railings on the east side of the Church of St Edmund in Bury St Edmunds date from the 19th century. They are made of cast iron and are attached at one end to the corner of No. 18 Westgate Street and at the other to the Church of St Edmund. There is a 20th-century opening for a car park. The railings are low and feature rounded spear heads, linked at the bottom by a bar with miniature spears and at the top by a bar with spiked balls. The plain brick plinth and square pilasters, which have stone caps, are mostly rebuilt.
Local climate
Railings on East Side of Church of St Edmund sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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