Piers, Gates, Lantern and Boundary Walls Surrounding Churchyard of St John the Baptist is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1987. Boundary walls.
Piers, Gates, Lantern and Boundary Walls Surrounding Churchyard of St John the Baptist
- WRENN ID
- last-lancet-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartmoor National Park
- Constituency
- South West Devon MP: Rebecca Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1987
- Type
- Boundary walls
- Address
- Piers, Gates, Lantern and Boundary Walls Surrounding Churchyard of St John the Baptist, Station Road, Horrabridge, West Devon
- OS grid reference
- SX 512 696
- Coordinates
- 50.50755, -4.09868
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The piers, gates, lantern, and boundary walls surrounding the churchyard of St John the Baptist were built in the late 19th century. They are constructed from slatestone rubble with granite dressings and piers, featuring wrought iron gates and a lantern. The walls are approximately 2 meters high and step down, extending about 33 meters to the north with buttresses at the upper level and granite chamfered copings. The wall sweeps up to the south and extends about 3 meters, returning and continuing about 25 meters to the east at a height of about 1 meter.
To the southwest, there is a pair of square granite ashlar piers with chamfered tops, supporting wrought iron gates with scrolled curved tops. The left pier has a wrought iron lantern on a quadripartite wrought iron base, topped with a spherical lantern and a cross finial. At the northwest corner, the wall steps back around a granite war memorial cross from 1918 and continues east for about 14 meters to a similar pair of piers with plainer wrought iron gates. The wall continues east for about 12 meters further.
Local climate
Piers, Gates, Lantern and Boundary Walls Surrounding Churchyard of St John the Baptist sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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