Detached Gate Piers and Forecourt Wall to Congregational Chapel with Mounting Block is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 April 1959. Gate piers and wall.
Detached Gate Piers and Forecourt Wall to Congregational Chapel with Mounting Block
- WRENN ID
- worn-cobble-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1959
- Type
- Gate piers and wall
- Address
- Detached Gate Piers and Forecourt Wall to Congregational Chapel with Mounting Block, Kingsbury Episcopi
- OS grid reference
- ST 422 184
- Coordinates
- 50.96247, -2.82343
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The detached gate piers and forecourt wall to the Congregational Chapel, built in 1729, are made of ashlar. The structure features tall square piers topped with moulded caps and ball finials. There is a pair of ornamental iron gates with spear capping, and the wall has coping that ramps down to each side. Three steps lead up to the gateway, and adjacent to the right is a mounting block with three steps.
Local climate
Detached Gate Piers and Forecourt Wall to Congregational Chapel with Mounting Block receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% 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 62% 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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