Gatepiers, Gates and Attached Walled Garden to East of Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1987. Gatepiers, garden.
Gatepiers, Gates and Attached Walled Garden to East of Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- silver-tracery-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1987
- Type
- Gatepiers, garden
- Address
- Gatepiers, Gates and Attached Walled Garden to East of Church of St Mary, Merton Road, Ambrosden
- OS grid reference
- SP 603 194
- Coordinates
- 51.87018, -1.12521
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gatepiers, gates, and attached walled garden located to the east of the Church of St. Mary were built around 1690, with the walls likely dating from the same period or the early 18th century. The structures are made of limestone ashlar, coursed squared rubble, and brick. The ashlar gatepiers feature moulded bases and caps, hanging strips with scrolled tops, and vase finials that are intricately carved with gadrooning and acanthus designs. The gates are from the 20th century.
The walled garden is roughly square in shape and has rubble walls that stand 2 to 3 meters high, topped with flat copings. On the western side, which borders the churchyard, the coping is triangular with an apex roll. There are blocked doorways on the south and east sides that have brick segmental arches, and the upper half of the inner face of the walls is lined with brick. The walls completely encircle the garden, except for about 10 meters of the south wall next to the gates, which have been lowered.
Local climate
Gatepiers, Gates and Attached Walled Garden to East of Church of St Mary sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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