Boundary Wall and Entrance Gateway to Cemetery, Incorporating War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1986. Boundary wall, gateway.
Boundary Wall and Entrance Gateway to Cemetery, Incorporating War Memorial
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 March 1986
- Type
- Boundary wall, gateway
- Address
- Boundary Wall and Entrance Gateway to Cemetery, Incorporating War Memorial, East Street, Corfe Castle
- OS grid reference
- SY 961 819
- Coordinates
- 50.6369, -2.05518
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The boundary wall and entrance gateway to the cemetery, which incorporates a war memorial, was built in 1922. The boundary wall is constructed of rubble stone and features stepped gabled coping, with intermediate piers that have stepped gabled caps. There is a low iron railing designed as a series of crosses. The entrance gateway is made of rubble stone with ashlar dressings and has a stone slate roof. It includes a moulded depressed four-centred arch within a square frame, complete with a hoodmould and Coats of Arms as stops. Above the arch, there is an inscription that reads "DO'SET MEN DON'T SHEAME THEIR KIND." The inner arch is also made of rubble stone. Inside the gateway, each jamb features an inscribed panel commemorating the first and second World Wars.
Local climate
Boundary Wall and Entrance Gateway to Cemetery, Incorporating War Memorial receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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