Gates and Gate Piers to St Mary's Church Churchyard, Leading to Church Walk is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 October 1983. Gate. 1 related planning application.
Gates and Gate Piers to St Mary's Church Churchyard, Leading to Church Walk
- WRENN ID
- swift-hammer-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 October 1983
- Type
- Gate
- Address
- Gates and Gate Piers to St Mary's Church Churchyard, Leading to Church Walk, Church Lane, Sturminster Newton
- OS grid reference
- ST 788 139
- Coordinates
- 50.92443, -2.30223
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gates and gate piers to St Mary's Church churchyard, leading to Church Walk, were likely built around 1825. They are made of wrought iron and feature cast (possibly bronze) finials. The piers are four-sided with an open lattice design and an open entablature, topped with an open spur finial that ends in a mitre. There are subsidiary mitre finials on the ironwork below. The double gates consist of three rails with a curved upper rail. The uprights of the gates alternate in height, terminating at the top and middle rails, and also bear mitre finials.
Local climate
Gates and Gate Piers to St Mary's Church Churchyard, Leading to Church Walk receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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