The Great Gateway, or Fyndon's Gateway, at St Augustine's College is a Grade I listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 December 1949. A 1283-1309 Gatehouse. 16 related planning applications.
The Great Gateway, or Fyndon's Gateway, at St Augustine's College
- WRENN ID
- haunted-span-rain
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 December 1949
- Type
- Gatehouse
- Period
- 1283-1309
- Address
- The Great Gateway, or Fyndon's Gateway, at St Augustine's College, Monastery Street
- OS grid reference
- TR 153 578
- Coordinates
- 51.27902, 1.08694
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Great Gateway, also known as Fyndon's Gateway, is located at St Augustine's College and dates from 1283 to 1309. This impressive stone arch features a chamber above and is flanked by stone octagonal turrets. The turrets are adorned with blank niches and corbels, and there are waterspouts present. The gateway is topped with a crenellated parapet that includes a stone seated figure. It forms part of a group that includes No 1, the wall adjoining No 1 to the right, a water pump opposite No 1, Nos 2, and Nos 4 to 18 (even), as well as St Augustine's College, the Hall, the Chapel, and The Cemetery Gateway.
Local climate
The Great Gateway, or Fyndon's Gateway, at St Augustine's College 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 16 applications
- 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
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