Entrance Gates and Gatepiers to Vivary Park is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1975. Gates and gatepiers.
Entrance Gates and Gatepiers to Vivary Park
- WRENN ID
- grim-merlon-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1975
- Type
- Gates and gatepiers
- Address
- Entrance Gates and Gatepiers to Vivary Park, Taunton
- OS grid reference
- ST 227 241
- Coordinates
- 51.01194, -3.10301
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The entrance gates and gatepiers to Vivary Park, located at the south end of High Street, likely date from 1896 when the park was established. These gates feature elaborate late Victorian ironwork. The main gatepiers have openwork circular designs and tops with brackets that support bronze lamps with scrolled crossbars. The double gates between the piers display scrolled details and the Taunton Borough coat of arms among the uprights. There are overthrows adorned with scrolls and finials. On either side, subsidiary gatepiers topped with bronze acorns support lower double gates, with all ironwork details consistent throughout. Short fixed extensions of openwork railings are present to the left and right. The listed buildings in Vivary Park and Mount Street form a group with several nearby structures, including the School, Unitarian Chapel, the Lawn, Mary Street House, Wilton House, and Nos 1 to 14 Upper High Street.
Local climate
Entrance Gates and Gatepiers to Vivary Park receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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