Gateway Adjoining Capella Extra is a Grade I listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 May 1976. A Post-Reformation Gateway.
Gateway Adjoining Capella Extra
- WRENN ID
- last-outpost-snow
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Barrow and Furness MP: Michelle Scrogham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 May 1976
- Type
- Gateway
- Period
- Post-Reformation
- OS grid reference
- SD 217 719
- Coordinates
- 54.13781, -3.19871
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gateway adjoining Capella Extra is a Grade I listed structure located in Barrow in Furness. It serves as the entrance to the abbey precinct and dates from the post-Reformation period, likely from the 16th century, using materials from the medieval era. The gateway is constructed from squared red sandstone and features a Gothic carriage arch that spans Abbey Approach, alongside a pedestrian gate that connects to Capella Extra Portas.
The large carriage arch is double-chamfered and has a moulded hood with weathered carved stops, topped by a ragged parapet wall. The pedestrian gate is designed with a chamfered and cavetto three-order arch beneath a hoodmould with stops. This gateway marks the site of the original outer gate of the abbey precinct.
Local climate
Gateway Adjoining Capella Extra sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,670 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% 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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