Main entrance gate, railings and flanking walls at St Woolos Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Newport local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 September 1999. A C14 Gate.

Main entrance gate, railings and flanking walls at St Woolos Cemetery

WRENN ID
muffled-quoin-vermeil
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Newport
Constituency
Newport West and Islwyn MP: Ruth Jones (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
14 September 1999
Type
Gate
Address
Main entrance gate, railings and flanking walls at St Woolos Cemetery, Allt-Yr-Yn
OS grid reference
ST 297 874
Coordinates
51.5813, -3.01557
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The main entrance gate, railings, and flanking walls at St Woolos Cemetery date from the 14th century and feature a tall, steeply gabled arched entry made of squared red sandstone with Bathstone detailing, including quoins and copings. The arch has two orders; the outer order includes a hollow moulding, while the inner order meets the arch at the impost level. A hoodmould with a foliage finial is present above the arch, and there is an empty niche with a crocketted ogee canopy. To the left, a pedestrian arch has a parapet that steps up to the center, which features a tablet containing a blank shield. The arches are separated by low buttresses that have gablets adorned with blind trefoils. The main gate consists of iron gates that ramp down to the center. Each end has buttresses that step down to low walls made of red sandstone with Bathstone chamfered copings. These walls are topped with low iron railings featuring a simple pattern of trefoils within triangles. The walls and railings extend to the street frontage, ending with large broach stops and piers that have octagonal upper stages, which include blind quatrefoils and blunt spirelets.

Local climate

Main entrance gate, railings and flanking walls at St Woolos Cemetery receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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