Walls Enclosing Churchyard, Gatepiers, Gates and Steps on East Front, Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1987. Enclosure walls.
Walls Enclosing Churchyard, Gatepiers, Gates and Steps on East Front, Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- floating-gallery-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1987
- Type
- Enclosure walls
- Address
- Walls Enclosing Churchyard, Gatepiers, Gates and Steps on East Front, Church of St Mary, Buckland St. Mary
- OS grid reference
- ST 270 134
- Coordinates
- 50.91569, -3.03885
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The walls enclosing the churchyard of St Mary's Church, along with the gatepiers, gates, and steps on the east front, were built around 1860. The walls are made of random rubble from local stone and feature various moulded coping. The gatepiers are constructed from Ham stone and were obscured by ivy at the time of the survey in November 1985. They have moulded coping that leads to a low retaining wall of steps, which ends in a pier with cross gable coping. There is a double wrought iron gate that connects the churchyard to the vicarage grounds, now known as Buckland House.
Local climate
Walls Enclosing Churchyard, Gatepiers, Gates and Steps on East Front, Church of St Mary receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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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