Wall Enclosing Friends' Burial Ground is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 January 1970. Wall. 1 related planning application.
Wall Enclosing Friends' Burial Ground
- WRENN ID
- tangled-steeple-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Tatton MP: Esther McVey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 January 1970
- Type
- Wall
- Address
- Wall Enclosing Friends' Burial Ground, Village Lane, Whitley
- OS grid reference
- SJ 616 796
- Coordinates
- 53.31265, -2.57733
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The wall enclosing the Friends' burial ground, likely built in the late 17th century, is constructed from three courses of large blocks of red sandstone topped with flush rounded copings. It features plain square stone gateposts and a boarded gate. Inside the burial ground, there is a visible 17th-century stone slab that reads: "HERE LYETH INTERRED THE BODI OF JOHN STARKEY LATE OF STRETTON GENT WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE 10TH DAY OF APRIL IN THE 44 YEAR OF HIS AGE ANNO DOMINI 1686: POST FUNERA VIRTUS." Below this inscription, there is a shield with a simple scroll on each side, featuring an incised image of a bird, likely a swan, in a passant position.
Local climate
Wall Enclosing Friends' Burial Ground receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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