Retaining Wall to Churchyard is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 August 1977. Retaining wall.
Retaining Wall to Churchyard
- WRENN ID
- tenth-mullion-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 August 1977
- Type
- Retaining wall
- Address
- Retaining Wall to Churchyard, Canongate, Alnwick
- OS grid reference
- NU 183 136
- Coordinates
- 55.41661, -1.71136
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The retaining wall to the churchyard is a Grade II listed structure located on the east side of Canongate. The wall begins at the churchyard gates, standing approximately 6 feet high, and increases in height as the road slopes downward. The first 40 to 50 yards of the wall is constructed from rough ashlar and rubble. Following this section, there is a stretch that reaches about 12 feet high, made of ashlar and featuring capped wall buttresses. The wall then transitions into a terraced and slightly curved design.
Local climate
Retaining Wall to Churchyard receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% 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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