Gate Piers & End Piers, Walls, Railings & Gates at W Entrance to Churchyard is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 3 February 1981. Rectory.
Gate Piers & End Piers, Walls, Railings & Gates at W Entrance to Churchyard
- WRENN ID
- drifting-quoin-storm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Constituency
- Vale of Glamorgan MP: Kanishka Narayan (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 3 February 1981
- Type
- Rectory
- Address
- Gate Piers & End Piers, Walls, Railings & Gates at W Entrance to Churchyard, Cowbridge, Cowbridge with Llanblethian
- OS grid reference
- SS 993 746
- Coordinates
- 51.46163, -3.44971
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The gate piers, end piers, walls, railings, and gates at the west entrance to the churchyard are constructed of stone laid in regular courses, topped with stone coping. The tall stone piers feature pyramidal coping. The iron railings have vertical uprights adorned with spear-headed finials. There is a pair of tall iron gates that have double bottom rails with quatrefoil panels. The top rails are flat at the ends above intersecting tracery but curve downwards, with uprights topped by fleur-de-lys finials that alternate in height above the middle and top rails.
Local climate
Gate Piers & End Piers, Walls, Railings & Gates at W Entrance to Churchyard sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,150 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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