Gate Piers, Gate and Walls at East Entrance to St Lawrence is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 1990. Gate piers, gate, walls.
Gate Piers, Gate and Walls at East Entrance to St Lawrence
- WRENN ID
- silver-chalk-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 January 1990
- Type
- Gate piers, gate, walls
- Address
- Gate Piers, Gate and Walls at East Entrance to St Lawrence, Bigbury
- OS grid reference
- SX 668 466
- Coordinates
- 50.30472, -3.87123
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gate piers, gate, and walls at the east entrance to St Lawrence were built in 1873, although the cappings may date from the 18th century. The structure features coursed, thin bedded stone and consists of two square piers measuring approximately 750 mm by 3.5 meters high overall. These piers have heavy moulded cappings topped with large granite ball finials. The walls are ogee quadrant style, leading to saddle-back copings at a height of about 6 meters, and are connected to the square piers with cappings, spanning approximately 13 meters in width. There is a pair of 19th century cast iron gates at the main entrance, along with a smaller matching pedestrian gate to the right. An inscription in the church indicates that the piers were relocated from Whitecross for this purpose.
Local climate
Gate Piers, Gate and Walls at East Entrance to St Lawrence receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 4 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% 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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