Gates and Gate Piers at West Entrance to Paternoster Row is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 August 1988. Gates.
Gates and Gate Piers at West Entrance to Paternoster Row
- WRENN ID
- gentle-cobble-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1988
- Type
- Gates
- Address
- Gates and Gate Piers at West Entrance to Paternoster Row, High Street, Barnstaple
- OS grid reference
- SS 558 332
- Coordinates
- 51.08002, -4.05995
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gates and gate piers at the west entrance to Paternoster Row in Barnstaple were constructed in 1829 by Thomas L Willshire, following a design by Mr Hooper. Originally, lamps were added in 1845 but have since been removed. The gates are made of openwork cast-iron and are designed in a Gothic style. They feature double gates in the center, with a single gate on either side, all flanked and separated by tall piers. The gates are decorated with quatrefoils, spearheads, and trefoil-headed panels. The gate piers are square in section and share similar decorative details. Each pier is topped with four crocketed pinnacles and a taller central pinnacle. The piers beside the double gates carry small brass plaques that read: "NEW IRON GATE MADE AND THE CHURCH YARD FLAT PAVED IN THE YEAR 1829. SAML. LINNINGTON, WILLM. ARTER, WARDENS." A simpler version of these gates, likely from the mid-19th century, can be found further down Paternoster Row at the east entrance to the churchyard.
Local climate
Gates and Gate Piers at West Entrance to Paternoster Row sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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