Gatepiers to St Illtyd's Church is a Grade II listed building in the Neath Port Talbot local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 5 January 1989. A C19 Gatepiers.

Gatepiers to St Illtyd's Church

WRENN ID
carved-spindle-sorrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Neath Port Talbot
Constituency
Neath and Swansea East MP: Carolyn Harris (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
5 January 1989
Type
Gatepiers
OS grid reference
SS 762 979
Coordinates
51.66703, -3.79131
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The gatepiers to St Illtyd's Church are tall and slender, made of rubble with dressed regular quoins. They feature crenellated Gothic limestone caps. There is later 19th-century ironwork for the gate. These gatepiers are contemporary with similar ones at St Thomas’ Parish Church.

Local climate

Gatepiers to St Illtyd's Church sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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