Grace Gates at Lord's Cricket Ground is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1996. Gates. 6 related planning applications.
Grace Gates at Lord's Cricket Ground
- WRENN ID
- grim-mantel-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 February 1996
- Type
- Gates
- Address
- Grace Gates at Lord's Cricket Ground, St John's Wood Road, City of Westminster
- OS grid reference
- TQ 268 826
- Coordinates
- 51.52827, -0.17312
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Grace Gates at Lord's Cricket Ground are gates and flanking walls with piers, built as a memorial to W. G. Grace in 1923 by Herbert Baker. The gates are made of cast iron and are set within a curved exedra of Portland stone. There are two pairs of gates, each topped with a motif of a cricket ball surrounded by rays of the sun, positioned on either side of a central pier that features a single triglyph of cricket stumps beneath an urn with an English lion. The center of the gates bears an inscription that reads: 'TO THE MEMORY OF WILLIAM GILBERT GRACE THE GREAT CRICKETER: 1848-1915: THESE GATES WERE ERECTED: THE MCC AND OTHER FRIENDS AND ADMIRERS'. The exedra has curved walls with a moulded cornice and base, while the piers are adorned with urns. There are swags and voussoirs over low doors that provide pedestrian access on either side. W. G. Grace was a prominent cricketer who played first-class cricket for 43 years and was a leading figure in English cricket during the late 19th century.
Local climate
Grace Gates at Lord's Cricket Ground sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% 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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