Part of City Wall from the Watergate to Bonewaldesthorne Tower is a Grade I listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 July 1955. A Medieval City wall.
Part of City Wall from the Watergate to Bonewaldesthorne Tower
- WRENN ID
- guardian-tallow-amber
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Chester North and Neston MP: Samantha Dixon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 July 1955
- Type
- City wall
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Part of City Wall from the Watergate to Bonewaldesthorne Tower, City Walls
- OS grid reference
- SJ 400 663
- Coordinates
- 53.19116, -2.89807
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This description covers a section of the medieval City Wall in Chester, dating from the late 11th century to the early 12th century. The wall was converted into a promenade between 1702 and 1708 and has undergone repairs and alterations at various times, particularly at the northern end where it was modified to accommodate the Holyhead Railway in the mid-19th century. The wall is constructed from coursed red sandstone rubble, with the outer face standing approximately 18 courses high and featuring buttresses of uncertain age. The ground level inside the wall is nearly level with the pavement, which was once the wall walk, but there is some exposed stonework visible towards the Watergate to the south and Bonewaldesthorne Tower to the north.
Local climate
Part of City Wall from the Watergate to Bonewaldesthorne Tower receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% 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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