Entrance Walls and Piers, Chippenham Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 1978. Walls and piers.
Entrance Walls and Piers, Chippenham Cemetery
- WRENN ID
- standing-baluster-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Chippenham MP: Sarah Gibson (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 June 1978
- Type
- Walls and piers
- Address
- Entrance Walls and Piers, Chippenham Cemetery, London Road
- OS grid reference
- ST 933 724
- Coordinates
- 51.45079, -2.09718
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The entrance walls and piers of Chippenham Cemetery were built around 1854. They are constructed from limestone rubble with ashlar coping and piers. The walls stand approximately 2 meters high and feature chamfered coping with foliate stops along the outer edge. The walls project forward for about 8 meters to meet tall gabled piers, then extend approximately 50 meters to the right with simpler chamfered capping, and 60 meters to the left where they step back after about 30 meters. The wall on the right continues back for about 140 meters and turns to form a rear wall for approximately 30 meters. Originally, these walls enclosed the graveyard, but part of them has been demolished to create a new rear entrance.
Local climate
Entrance Walls and Piers, Chippenham Cemetery receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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