Railings and gates at St Mary Street War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Caerphilly local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 July 2017. Gates and railings.
Railings and gates at St Mary Street War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- second-cobalt-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Caerphilly
- Constituency
- Newport West and Islwyn MP: Ruth Jones (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 14 July 2017
- Type
- Gates and railings
- Address
- Railings and gates at St Mary Street War Memorial, Risca
- OS grid reference
- ST 233 913
- Coordinates
- 51.61614, -3.1078
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The railings and gates at the St Mary Street War Memorial are a notable feature, classified as Grade II. They consist of double gates and piers, which are flanked by curved and ramped panels along with shorter piers. A continuous line of railings runs along each side, extending across the St Mary Street frontage of the garden. The structure is made of wrought and cast iron, with the piers marked ‘BAKER’S NEWPORT’. The gates feature scroll decoration along the outer margins and the top rail, along with dog bars. The cast iron gatepiers have a pediment, with plain panels on the shaft and a capital adorned with rosettes. The railings are composed of individual panels with intermediate uprights; each panel consists of square section rails with plain points, a central rail that includes scroll work and a ball finial, and end rails topped with abstract horn finials.
Local climate
Railings and gates at St Mary Street War Memorial sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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