St Mary's Churchyard 4 Walls Including Gates and Railings on North and South Sides is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1973. Churchyard wall.
St Mary's Churchyard 4 Walls Including Gates and Railings on North and South Sides
- WRENN ID
- fading-truss-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1973
- Type
- Churchyard wall
- Address
- St Mary's Churchyard 4 Walls Including Gates and Railings on North and South Sides, Church Walk, Bideford, EX39 2BP
- OS grid reference
- SS 453 264
- Coordinates
- 51.01653, -4.20587
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Mary's Churchyard features four walls, including gates and railings on the north and south sides, likely built around 1865. The boundary wall is made of stone rubble and is topped with a chamfered granite coping, showing marks from former railings. On the north side, there are surviving iron railings that include uprights with elaborated spear-heads and twisted standards supported by twisted brackets. The south side has a pair of iron gates with more delicate spear-heads and an arch of scrollwork above, likely intended for a lampholder, supported by standards similar to those on the north side. The gate may not be in its original position, as a nearby granite plaque indicates that this entrance to the churchyard was constructed in 1914. The east side of the wall lacks granite coping; instead, the northern half features a flat stone coping that rises to a flat-topped pier near the north end.
Local climate
St Mary's Churchyard 4 Walls Including Gates and Railings on North and South Sides receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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