Retaining Wall Bounding Churchyard of St Mary's Church on West, South and Half on East Side Including Gate Piers at South West Corner is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1982. Wall.

Retaining Wall Bounding Churchyard of St Mary's Church on West, South and Half on East Side Including Gate Piers at South West Corner

WRENN ID
ruined-outpost-elder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire West and Chester
Constituency
Runcorn and Helsby MP: Sarah Pochin (RUK)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 June 1982
Type
Wall
Address
Retaining Wall Bounding Churchyard of St Mary's Church on West, South and Half on East Side Including Gate Piers at South West Corner, Thornton-Le-Moors
OS grid reference
SJ 441 745
Coordinates
53.26476, -2.83866
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The retaining wall surrounding the churchyard of St Mary's Church is from the 18th and 19th centuries. It is constructed from square coursed rubble in various builds, featuring plain flush or chamfered coping, or sometimes no coping at all. The wall stands approximately 4 feet high on the west, south, and half of the east side of the churchyard. The section to the west of the north aisle incorporates the wall of a late 19th-century basement heating chamber for the church. The southern part of the wall on the eastern side likely dates to around 1858, coinciding with the extension of the churchyard in that area.

At the southwest corner, there are gate piers that are plain posts topped with roll section heads, connected by later simple scrolled iron straps. These piers are inscribed with the names T Morris (Church Warden) and Wm Burnell (Church Warden), possibly from 1776. The retaining wall is located on either side of four stone steps, three of which are old.

Local climate

Retaining Wall Bounding Churchyard of St Mary's Church on West, South and Half on East Side Including Gate Piers at South West Corner receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% 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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