Churchyard Wall, Piers and Gates to St Thomas of Canterbury is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1972. Churchyard wall and gates.
Churchyard Wall, Piers and Gates to St Thomas of Canterbury
- WRENN ID
- wild-wall-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Chester North and Neston MP: Samantha Dixon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1972
- Type
- Churchyard wall and gates
- Address
- Churchyard Wall, Piers and Gates to St Thomas of Canterbury, Cheyney Road
- OS grid reference
- SJ 402 672
- Coordinates
- 53.19856, -2.89659
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The churchyard wall, piers, and gates to St Thomas of Canterbury are located on the north-west side of the churchyard and date from the late 19th century. Constructed from squared snecked sandstone and cast-iron, the wall retains the churchyard, which is one meter above street level. It features roughly rounded flush coping stones. There are a pair of square ashlar gate piers with tooled raised panels on the sides and two-stage pyramidal heads. The cast-iron gate includes dogbars, roundels between double lower and upper rails, and a panel decorated with foliar-cusped quatrefoils. There is also a pair of gates of similar design without piers, located opposite the north porch. The wall continues south-east along Parkgate Road.
Local climate
Churchyard Wall, Piers and Gates to St Thomas of Canterbury 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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