Walls, Gate Piers and Gates to the Church of St Andrew is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. Walls, gates, gate piers.
Walls, Gate Piers and Gates to the Church of St Andrew
- WRENN ID
- silent-footing-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Walls, gates, gate piers
- Address
- Walls, Gate Piers and Gates to the Church of St Andrew, Wellington Square, Minehead
- OS grid reference
- SS 967 461
- Coordinates
- 51.20535, -3.47893
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The walls, gate piers, and gates to the Church of St Andrew were built between 1877 and 1880 by the architect George Edmund Street. They are constructed from rubblestone with freestone capping and quoins, featuring wrought-iron gates. The gates facing Friday Street are set on a sloping site, with a retaining wall on the north side that rises from the pavement to approximately 2 meters by the porch. This wall then ramps and steps down to serve as a flanking wall for the steps leading to the porch at the north-east corner. The wall at the east end is made of snecked sandstone and has chamfered freestone capping. The southern rubblestone wall also reaches about 2 meters in height. The double gates at both east corners are adorned with scrolls and trefoil heads on the panels and are supported by square piers made of ashlar and rubblestone, topped with pyramidal heads. Additionally, the handrail on the north wall is held up by scrolled wrought-iron uprights.
Local climate
Walls, Gate Piers and Gates to the Church of St Andrew sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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