Christchurch Gateway is a Grade I listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 December 1949. A C16 Gateway.
Christchurch Gateway
- WRENN ID
- broken-spire-vetch
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 December 1949
- Type
- Gateway
- Address
- Christchurch Gateway, Burgate
- OS grid reference
- TR 149 578
- Coordinates
- 51.2793, 1.08119
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Christchurch Gateway is the entrance to the Cathedral Precincts, built in 1517 and restored by Caröe in the 1930s. This Grade I listed building is three storeys high and constructed from ragstone and artificial stone. It has a square shape with octagonal turrets. The ground floor features a Lierne-vaulted room accessed through a wide four-centred arch and a foot arch. There are rooms on the two upper storeys above the vault. The lower floor displays bands of shields within quatrefoils, while the upper floor showcases half-length angels carrying shields. These heraldic shields commemorate Prince Arthur, the eldest son of Henry VII, who died in 1502. The wooden doors date from the 17th century. Nos 23 to 37 (consecutive) and the Christchurch Gateway form a group.
Local climate
Christchurch Gateway sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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