Iron Gates and Piers Between St Anne's Chapel and Parish Hall is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 August 1988. Gates and piers. 3 related planning applications.
Iron Gates and Piers Between St Anne's Chapel and Parish Hall
- WRENN ID
- dark-rampart-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1988
- Type
- Gates and piers
- Address
- Iron Gates and Piers Between St Anne's Chapel and Parish Hall, Paternoster Row, Barnstaple, EX31 1BJ
- OS grid reference
- SS 558 332
- Coordinates
- 51.08002, -4.05865
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The iron gates and piers located between St Anne's Chapel and the Parish Hall were likely constructed in 1863. They are made of open-work cast iron and consist of a pair of gates set between square-section piers. The gates feature decorative elements such as quatrefoils, ogee arches, and spear-heads, while the piers are adorned with 4-leaved flowers and other Gothic motifs. Some of the decorative elements appear to have been replaced with flat-fronted replicas.
The northern pier is topped with a central crocketed pinnacle, accompanied by smaller pinnacles at each corner, though the smaller ones on the east side have been replaced with simpler versions. The southern pier has had all its pinnacles replaced in a similar manner.
These gates do not span the entire width of the Row and have never done so. They may have originally been the gates from the Butcher's Row end of Church Lane, which the Town Council removed in 1889 or 1890 without the churchwarden's consent. In January 1890, there was an intention to relocate the gates, but no decision had been made at that time.
Local climate
Iron Gates and Piers Between St Anne's Chapel and Parish Hall 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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