Gates, Railings and Wall Forming Boundary to Churchyard is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 February 1986. Gates, railings, wall.
Gates, Railings and Wall Forming Boundary to Churchyard
- WRENN ID
- proud-railing-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Constituency
- North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 February 1986
- Type
- Gates, railings, wall
- Address
- Gates, Railings and Wall Forming Boundary to Churchyard, Dowdeswell
- OS grid reference
- SP 001 199
- Coordinates
- 51.87795, -1.9996
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gates, railings, and wall form the boundary to the churchyard of the Church of St. Michael. The cast iron gates and railings were installed in the 19th century by the Rogers family. They are set into a dwarf wall made of coursed squared and dressed limestone, while a short section of coursed squared and dressed limestone wall is located on the north-west side of the churchyard. The wall dates from the 17th to 18th century. The railings are integrated into a coped dwarf wall that features buttresses on the churchyard side, which support cast iron braces connected to standards with urn finials placed at intervals of 2.5 meters. A single gate on the east side of the churchyard displays a heraldic shield of the Rogers family along with the motto 'VIGILA ET ORA'. There are also double gates with a single gate next to them at the north-west corner, which originally had another heraldic shield of the Rogers family, now missing. The stone wall extends south from the double gates for approximately 25 meters and is capped with pyramidal stones.
Local climate
Gates, Railings and Wall Forming Boundary to Churchyard receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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