Gates Piers and Wall to St Marys Cemetery Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Cheltenham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 May 1972. Gate and wall.
Gates Piers and Wall to St Marys Cemetery Chapel
- WRENN ID
- woven-roof-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheltenham
- Constituency
- Cheltenham MP: Max Wilkinson (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 May 1972
- Type
- Gate and wall
- Address
- Gates Piers and Wall to St Marys Cemetery Chapel, High Street
- OS grid reference
- SO 943 229
- Coordinates
- 51.90495, -2.08379
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gates, piers, and wall to St Mary's Cemetery Chapel, also known as the entrance gates and walls of Winston Churchill Memorial Garden, date back to around 1831. They feature pinkish-brown brick walls with ashlar coping and stuccoed piers. The ornamental iron gates, designed by Thomas Letheren, replaced earlier gates by R.E. Marshall of Cheltenham. The gates include bars and scroll-headed dog-bars, with a central upper panel displaying a scroll motif and a floral scroll above, situated between ornamental iron piers. The adjoining coped walls are approximately one and a half metres long and two metres high, leading to tall square piers with moulded capping. The coped walls along the drive ramp down from the piers and extend for about forty-five metres, maintaining a height of two metres.
Historically, the New Burying Ground was acquired in 1830 due to overcrowding in the churchyard of St Mary's Church on Church Street. Letheren's gates were originally located at the entrance to Cypher's Nursery Gardens on Queen's Road and were installed after World War II. This structure is an important feature of the streetscape and is integral to the setting of St Mary's Cemetery Chapel.
Local climate
Gates Piers and Wall to St Marys Cemetery Chapel receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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