Boundary Wall, Gates and Gate Piers to Tower Hamlets Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Tower Hamlets local planning authority area, England. Boundary wall. 3 related planning applications.

Boundary Wall, Gates and Gate Piers to Tower Hamlets Cemetery

WRENN ID
floating-spindle-nightshade
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tower Hamlets
Constituency
Poplar and Limehouse MP: Apsana Begum (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Boundary wall
Address
Boundary Wall, Gates and Gate Piers to Tower Hamlets Cemetery, Southern Grove E3, E3 4PX
OS grid reference
TQ 367 823
Coordinates
51.52368, -0.03063
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The boundary wall to Tower Hamlets Cemetery was consecrated in 1841 and designed by Wyatt and Brandon. It was restored in the 1980s. The wall is made of stock brick and stands about 8 feet high, featuring a rendered plinth. At regular intervals, there are piers, some of which are rendered, with gabled stone caps. The wall has dog-tooth cornices beneath brick-on-edge parapets that create recessed bays between the piers. Similar piers flank the 1980s iron gates at the north end, which has a rounded corner that returns to the wall along Hamlets Way, with cast-iron railings positioned between the piers.

Local climate

Boundary Wall, Gates and Gate Piers to Tower Hamlets Cemetery 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 96% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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