Gate Piers and Quadrant Walls at Entrance to St John's on the Hill is a Grade II listed building in the Forest of Dean local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 March 1988. A C19 Gate piers, quadrant walls.

Gate Piers and Quadrant Walls at Entrance to St John's on the Hill

WRENN ID
scattered-baluster-harvest
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Forest of Dean
Constituency
Forest of Dean MP: Matt Bishop (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 March 1988
Type
Gate piers, quadrant walls
Address
Gate Piers and Quadrant Walls at Entrance to St John's on the Hill, Castleford Hill, Tidenham
OS grid reference
ST 537 946
Coordinates
51.64879, -2.66999
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The gate piers and quadrant walls at the entrance to St John's on the Hill were built in the early 19th century and are made of sandstone and limestone. The structure features a pair of piers that are approximately 700 millimeters square and about 4 meters high, topped with large ball finials on square ogee finials, along with moulded capping and V-joint rusticated shafts at the base. Each side wall has quadrants made of squared and coursed limestone with flat sandstone capping, which sweep towards the square piers at the roadside. These piers are also around 700 millimeters square and project about 75 millimeters from the wall face. The overall width to the outer piers is approximately 13 meters, with the upper (left) pier standing about 1.75 meters high and the lower pier about 2.75 meters high. At the time of the survey in December 1983, no gates were present.

Local climate

Gate Piers and Quadrant Walls at Entrance to St John's on the Hill receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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