Gateway and flanking walls to St Mary's Convent is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 December 1985. Gateway.
Gateway and flanking walls to St Mary's Convent
- WRENN ID
- tall-footing-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 December 1985
- Type
- Gateway
- Address
- Gateway and flanking walls to St Mary's Convent, Challow Road, Wantage, Oxfordshire, OX12 9DJ
- OS grid reference
- SU 393 881
- Coordinates
- 51.59102, -1.4341
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gateway and flanking walls to St Mary's Convent, located from Challow Road, were likely built in 1855 or 1856 by the architect G E Street. The materials used include roughly dressed and ashlar limestone blocks.
The exterior features a pointed-arch ashlar entrance that is supported by buttresses at both the front and rear, with stone modillions positioned above. The entrance is topped with a gable that includes kneelers, and there are ashlar crucifixes set into the apex on both sides. The gateway has a segmental, two-leaf iron gate and is flanked by iron guardrails that feature pierced quatrefoils and spikes. Additionally, there are stepped flanking walls attached to the entrance, which have ashlar coping.
Local climate
Gateway and flanking walls to St Mary's Convent receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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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