Wall and Gatepiers (known as Temple Doors) to Piercefield Park at The Wyndcliff is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 February 2001. Wall, gatepiers.

Wall and Gatepiers (known as Temple Doors) to Piercefield Park at The Wyndcliff

WRENN ID
odd-ledge-sable
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Monmouthshire
Constituency
Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
14 February 2001
Type
Wall, gatepiers
Address
Wall and Gatepiers (known as Temple Doors) to Piercefield Park at The Wyndcliff, Chepstow, St. Arvans
OS grid reference
ST 522 967
Coordinates
51.66782, -2.69204
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Temple Doors are a wall and gatepiers located at Piercefield Park, near The Wyndcliff. The wall is approximately 2.5 meters high and is made of squared sandstone rubble. It stretches for about 150 meters along the A466 road. At either end of the wall, there are two large square gatepiers, each standing about 3 meters tall and topped with flat stone copings.

Local climate

Wall and Gatepiers (known as Temple Doors) to Piercefield Park at The Wyndcliff receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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