Walls, Railings, Gate-Piers, Gates and Overthrow on South Sout West and West of Church of St. Michael is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1991. Churchyard feature.
Walls, Railings, Gate-Piers, Gates and Overthrow on South Sout West and West of Church of St. Michael
- WRENN ID
- twisted-lantern-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1991
- Type
- Churchyard feature
- Address
- Walls, Railings, Gate-Piers, Gates and Overthrow on South Sout West and West of Church of St. Michael, Stokenham
- OS grid reference
- SX 808 428
- Coordinates
- 50.27326, -3.6739
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The walls, railings, gatepiers, gates, and overthrow located to the south-southwest and west of the Church of St. Michael are likely from the 19th century. The tall slate rubble retaining wall immediately south of the church supports a churchyard that is at a much higher level than the ground to the south. This wall features battered buttresses with weathered set-offs and slate coping, topped with iron railings that have baluster stanchions and fleur-de-lis finials on the shafts. The wall steps up to a higher level on the right side. At the left end, there is a scrolled iron overthrow and a pair of gates, which also have fleur-de-lis finials on the shafts, along with the maker's name "Lidstone Kingsbridge." The gateway and steps provide access to a ramp leading into the churchyard, and to the west of the gateway, the retaining wall continues along the road, where its saddle back coping has been rendered.
Local climate
Walls, Railings, Gate-Piers, Gates and Overthrow on South Sout West and West of Church of St. Michael receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% 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 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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