Gate Piers, Front and Return Walls to Church of St Laurence is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 April 1984. Church gate piers.

Gate Piers, Front and Return Walls to Church of St Laurence

WRENN ID
grey-barrel-dock
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Westmorland and Furness
Constituency
Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 April 1984
Type
Church gate piers
Address
Gate Piers, Front and Return Walls to Church of St Laurence, Morland
OS grid reference
NY 597 225
Coordinates
54.59633, -2.62413
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The gate piers and front and return walls to the Church of St Laurence are large and rusticated, located to the west of the church. The gate piers feature square, corniced capitals topped with stepped ball finials. The top course of each pier has a badly weathered inscription on the east face, with only the date 1723 remaining legible. The front and south return walls are constructed of coursed rubble and include an initialed and dated lintel above a moulded door surround, which reads: W.N. M.W. 1714.

Local climate

Gate Piers, Front and Return Walls to Church of St Laurence sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,230 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 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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