Wall and Gate Piers Between Archbishop's Palace and Cathedral is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. Wall and gate piers.
Wall and Gate Piers Between Archbishop's Palace and Cathedral
- WRENN ID
- tangled-steeple-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Wall and gate piers
- Address
- Wall and Gate Piers Between Archbishop's Palace and Cathedral, the Cathedral Precincts
- OS grid reference
- TR 150 579
- Coordinates
- 51.28006, 1.0817
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The wall and gate piers located between the Archbishop's Palace and the Cathedral date back to the medieval period. The structure features a 1-foot high base made of flint and ashlar, topped with stone coping. There are two stone gate piers that rise approximately 20 feet high, each adorned with cornices that have Ovolo moulding.
Local climate
Wall and Gate Piers Between Archbishop's Palace and Cathedral 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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