Gate-Piers, Steps and Churchyard Wall South West of Saint Piran is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 March 1986. Churchyard wall.
Gate-Piers, Steps and Churchyard Wall South West of Saint Piran
- WRENN ID
- vast-passage-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1986
- Type
- Churchyard wall
- Address
- Gate-Piers, Steps and Churchyard Wall South West of Saint Piran, Church Road, Perranarworthal
- OS grid reference
- SW 778 389
- Coordinates
- 50.20853, -5.11409
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gate-piers, steps, and churchyard wall located southwest of the Church of Saint Piran were built in the early to late 19th century. The churchyard wall is constructed from killas rubble, while the steps, piers, and copings are made of dressed granite, complemented by wrought iron railings. The wall encloses and supports the west side of the churchyard, featuring a wide gateway at the lower south end that is accessed by a broad flight of eight steps, which decrease in width towards the top. At the landing, there is a filled-in cattle grid flanked by dressed granite side benches against the granite-coped rubble walling. The closed string copings are topped with square piers that serve as newel posts for simple iron railings, each featuring two thin square stanchions and a handrail that is scrolled underneath at the bottom. There is an additional gateway to the west of the church tower, which has granite gate-piers and early to mid-19th century wrought iron gates with roundels on the lock rails.
Local climate
Gate-Piers, Steps and Churchyard Wall South West of Saint Piran receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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