School Gates and Piers is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 December 1976. A C16 Gate.
School Gates and Piers
- WRENN ID
- odd-merlon-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 December 1976
- Type
- Gate
- Address
- School Gates and Piers, Piddletrenthide
- OS grid reference
- SY 706 995
- Coordinates
- 50.79507, -2.41782
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The school gates and piers in Piddletrenthide are likely from the tomb of Lady Margaret Beaufort in Westminster Abbey and date back to the 16th century. They are made of wrought iron, featuring spear-headed uprights with horizontal rails. The upper rail is broad and has a cable-moulding with lozenge-shaped jewels underneath. The gates include square-set hinge parts with decorative three-stage weather buttresses that resemble a Doric column above the top rail, supporting a finial. The gate piers, which are probably early 19th century, are rusticated and pointed, made of monolithic stone. These gates were part of John Bridge's collection and were removed from Westminster Abbey around 1820. They were relocated to the new school in 1999.
Local climate
School Gates and Piers receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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