Churchyard Walls, Piers and Gates of Church of St Mary Magdalene is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1973. Churchyard walls, piers and gates.
Churchyard Walls, Piers and Gates of Church of St Mary Magdalene
- WRENN ID
- frozen-vault-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 October 1973
- Type
- Churchyard walls, piers and gates
- Address
- Churchyard Walls, Piers and Gates of Church of St Mary Magdalene, Castleton Road, Sherborne
- OS grid reference
- ST 646 168
- Coordinates
- 50.94966, -2.50522
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The churchyard walls, piers, and gates of the Church of St Mary Magdalene date from the 18th and 19th centuries. The gate piers are made of ashlar stone and feature a moulded plinth and capping, topped with ball finials. The double iron gates have five horizontal bars, with the top bar curved to form a segment. The lower four bars are arranged in pairs and include inset bands of diagonal panelling, with vertical rails that terminate at two different horizontal levels. A semi-circular bar overthrow with scroll decoration supports a 19th-century quadrangular lamp with cresting. The stone rubble wall encloses the churchyard on all sides, with the wall on the south side being lower and topped with ashlar coping. The Church of St Mary Magdalene, along with the churchyard walls, piers, gates, Lattice House, Garden Wall and piers to Lattice House, Middle House, and Raleigh Lodge, form a group with the gates at the entrance to Sherborne Castle in Sherborne Rural District.
Local climate
Churchyard Walls, Piers and Gates of Church of St Mary Magdalene receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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