Gates and Gate Piers at Main Entrance to Tiverton Cemetery Including Boundary Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 April 2000. Gates and gate piers.
Gates and Gate Piers at Main Entrance to Tiverton Cemetery Including Boundary Wall
- WRENN ID
- dusted-cobalt-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Devon
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 April 2000
- Type
- Gates and gate piers
- Address
- Gates and Gate Piers at Main Entrance to Tiverton Cemetery Including Boundary Wall, Park Road
- OS grid reference
- SS 956 135
- Coordinates
- 50.91191, -3.48585
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gates and gate piers at the main entrance to Tiverton Cemetery, along with the boundary wall, were likely constructed around 1855 by GA Boyce of Tiverton, with the gates being replaced in the late 19th century. The boundary wall extends approximately 65 meters south along Park Road and is built of squared stone rubble topped with flat stone coping, except for a short quadrant section where the coping is made of concrete.
The gate piers, along with a similar pier integrated into the wall, are made of stone ashlar. These piers are tall and square, featuring chamfered and stopped corners, projecting chamfered plinths, and stepped pyramidal caps topped with small finials. The double iron gates have fleurs-de-lys finials on the uprights, and there is a matching lamp holder above the gates, although the lamp is now missing.
To the right of the gates is a short, straight section of wall that includes an inset stone tablet inscribed with "THIS CEMETERY WAS OPENED IN 1855 & ENLARGED IN 1895." Beyond this, the quadrant wall curves outward, leading to a stretch of wall that reaches the southern boundary of the cemetery. A letter from GA Boyce to the Burial Board dated May 4, 1858, mentions damage to the gates caused by high winds, indicating that the original gates were wooden, and Boyce would have preferred iron gates if funds had allowed.
Local climate
Gates and Gate Piers at Main Entrance to Tiverton Cemetery Including Boundary Wall receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% 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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