Part of City Wall from Eastgate to Thimblebys Tower and Attached Gravestones is a Grade I listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 July 1955. A Late C1 to early C2 and late C11 to early C12 City wall.

Part of City Wall from Eastgate to Thimblebys Tower and Attached Gravestones

WRENN ID
last-rood-myrtle
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
Address
Part of City Wall from Eastgate to Thimblebys Tower and Attached Gravestones, City Walls
OS grid reference
SJ 407 663
Coordinates
53.19059, -2.88874
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This description covers part of the city wall in Chester, which dates from the late 1st century to early 2nd century and late 11th century to early 12th century. The wall was converted into a raised promenade between 1702 and 1708 and has undergone repairs at various times. It features purple-grey sandstone Roman ashlar masonry alongside softer red sandstone medieval and later coursed rubble, with some Roman stones possibly being reused.

There is a slightly projecting plinth, likely Roman, located behind the Trustee Savings Bank, and another Roman plinth with two courses of ashlar behind the Wesley Methodist Church, which has 19th-century rebuilding above it. Some areas have been refaced in brick. An L-shaped ashlar stair with 14 and 20 steps leads towards St John Street. The inner face of the wall has been partly refaced in brick in the northern section, featuring blank arches and eight circular apertures. Additionally, there is a concrete footbridge from the wall walk to the Grosvenor shopping precinct, constructed in the 1960s.

Attached to the wall, at the rear of the Wesley Methodist Church, are three eroded 19th-century gravestones with a frieze above inscribed "WESLEYAN CHAPEL."

Local climate

Part of City Wall from Eastgate to Thimblebys Tower and Attached Gravestones 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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