Churchyard Wall Around Old Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1967. A C18 Wall.
Churchyard Wall Around Old Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- strange-bonework-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1967
- Type
- Wall
- Address
- Churchyard Wall Around Old Church of St Mary, Brignall
- OS grid reference
- NZ 077 121
- Coordinates
- 54.50483, -1.88246
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The churchyard wall surrounding the old Church of St. Mary dates from the 18th century or earlier. It is constructed of coursed rubble and features a flat slab coping. The wall stands approximately 1.2 metres high on three sides of the rectangular churchyard, with a lower retaining wall along the riverbank to the east. Near the west end of the south wall, there are two monolith piers that support a wrought-iron gate, which has looped bars and knob-topped dogbars. To the immediate east of the gate, there is a stone stile. At the time of the survey, the wall was in poor condition, partly due to the removal of re-set medieval cross slabs. The wall is included for its group value.
Local climate
Churchyard Wall Around Old Church of St Mary receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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