The Former 'Stonyn' Door in Churchyard About 5 Metres South of Vestry, Church of St Margaret is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1961. Doorway.
The Former 'Stonyn' Door in Churchyard About 5 Metres South of Vestry, Church of St Margaret
- WRENN ID
- unlit-panel-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 April 1961
- Type
- Doorway
- OS grid reference
- ST 498 197
- Coordinates
- 50.97453, -2.71594
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former 'Stonyn' door is located in the churchyard about 5 metres south of the vestry of the Church of St. Margaret. It dates from either 1515 or 1518 and is made of Ham stone. The structure is a block of stone approximately 1.2 meters wide, 400 millimeters thick, and 2 meters tall. It features a moulded open pediment at the top, beneath which is a band of carved medieval Latin script that translates to "Let us go into the house of God rejoicing" on one side and "Truly this is a holy place" on the other. Below this, the outline of a segmental arched doorway can be traced. This door was erected by Prior Chard of Montacute, who was also the vicar of Tintinhull, possibly during repairs to the churchyard wall using stone from the ruins of Montacute Castle. It may have served as his private gate to the parsonage, which is now Tintinhull Court. This door has been preserved as the lintel, while a 18th-century gateway now replaces it in the churchyard's south wall.
Local climate
The Former 'Stonyn' Door in Churchyard About 5 Metres South of Vestry, Church of St Margaret receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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