Main Entrance Screen and Lodges City of London Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Newham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1984. Entrance screen and lodges. 10 related planning applications.
Main Entrance Screen and Lodges City of London Cemetery
- WRENN ID
- heavy-loggia-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newham
- Constituency
- East Ham MP: Sir Stephen Timms (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 October 1984
- Type
- Entrance screen and lodges
- Address
- Main Entrance Screen and Lodges City of London Cemetery, Aldersbrook Road E12
- OS grid reference
- TQ 418 863
- Coordinates
- 51.55815, 0.04423
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The main entrance screen and two attached lodges at the City of London Cemetery were designed by William Haywood in 1855. They are constructed from rubblestone with ashlar dressings and feature tiled roofs with fishscale decoration on the lodges. The architectural style is Perpendicular Gothic, characterized by a gabled entrance screen with three arches and triple ogee-canopied niches above, which display the City of London crest and two dragons. Flanking the entrance are piers and iron railings that create a semicircular forecourt, with the end piers facing the road being circular with conical tops.
The north-western lodge is two storeys tall, with a pitched roof and a gable on the right side. It has a small, recessed central tower topped with a pyramidal spire, and a single-storey wing with an oriel window to the left. The windows feature Perpendicular tracery, and there is a tall stack with triple Tudor chimneys on the right. This lodge is mirrored by a second lodge to the south-east, which has a similar picturesque design, including a gable, tower, and two oriel windows instead of three. To the right is a single-storey block with wooden traceried windows, and a stack with two Tudor chimney pots is located to the left of the gable.
Local climate
Main Entrance Screen and Lodges City of London Cemetery sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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