Entrance Gates to Wesley's Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Islington local planning authority area, England. Gates, railings.
Entrance Gates to Wesley's Chapel
- WRENN ID
- dim-jamb-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Islington
- Constituency
- Islington South and Finsbury MP: Emily Thornberry (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Gates, railings
- Address
- Entrance Gates to Wesley's Chapel, City Road, EC1Y 1AU
- OS grid reference
- TQ 327 822
- Coordinates
- 51.52371, -0.08729
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The entrance gates and railings to Wesley's Chapel were built in the late 18th century and are made of wrought iron. The gate piers feature panels with scrolling ornamentation facing the street, along with cornices. The gates and railings are topped with vase and pinched spike finials.
Local climate
Entrance Gates to Wesley's Chapel 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 95% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
- 1 Gatepiers, Gates and Railings of Wesleyan Methodist Chapel
- 2 Forecourt railings, gates & gate piers to Wesley Chapel
- 3 Wall, Railings, Gates and Gate-Piers to Methodist Chapel
- 4 4 Gates with Lamp Bracket Over at South End of Pathway Leading to Former Wesleyan Methodist Church
- 5 Walls and Railings to Wesleyan Methodist Church
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings
Nearby listed buildings
- Statue of John Wesley in the Forecourt of Wesley's Chapel
- Wesley's Chapel Memorial to Susannah Wesley in the Forecourt
- Gates to John Wesley's House
- Monument to Richard Price, East Enclosure
- Monument to Hugh Pugh, East Enclosure
- John Wesley's House and Attached Railings
- The Manse
- Monument to Thomas Hardy, East Enclosure
- Monument to James Hughes, East Enclosure
- Tomb with Railings, East Enclosure