Churchyard wall and gate at St Teilo, Merthyr Mawr is a Grade II listed building in the Bridgend local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 January 1999. Wall and gate.

Churchyard wall and gate at St Teilo, Merthyr Mawr

WRENN ID
silent-sandstone-winter
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bridgend
Constituency
Bridgend MP: Chris Elmore (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
29 January 1999
Type
Wall and gate
OS grid reference
SS 883 774
Coordinates
51.48526, -3.60976
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The churchyard wall and gate at St Teilo in Merthyr Mawr is a dwarf wall made of snecked stone with ramped coping. The wall consists of four straight sections and a short return at the western end. Above the coping, there are iron posts topped with fleur-de-lys finials, which are threaded with wire fencing. The gate is located at the eastern end and is constructed from cast and wrought iron. It features scrolled dog bars beneath raked bars that have scrollwork below the top rail. On the right and left sides of the gate, there are scrolled finials.

Local climate

Churchyard wall and gate at St Teilo, Merthyr Mawr sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,190 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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