Wall, Entrances and Drinking Fountain to Church of St Matthew and James is a Grade II listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1985. Wall, drinking fountain.
Wall, Entrances and Drinking Fountain to Church of St Matthew and James
- WRENN ID
- moated-sill-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Liverpool
- Constituency
- Liverpool Wavertree MP: Paula Barker (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1985
- Type
- Wall, drinking fountain
- Address
- Wall, Entrances and Drinking Fountain to Church of St Matthew and James, Rose Lane
- OS grid reference
- SJ 388 870
- Coordinates
- 53.37635, -2.92123
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The wall, entrances, and drinking fountain to the Church of St. Matthew and James were built around 1875, likely designed by the architectural firm Paley and Austin. The wall runs approximately 116.5 meters to the church yard and features an entrance at the east end leading to Rose Lane. There is a drinking fountain located halfway between the two entrances, along with an entrance to a canted section of the wall. The stone wall is topped with a coping that has a roll moulding. Each entrance is marked by two gate piers with weathered caps and flat gabled buttresses that include tracery panels. One of the piers has a gable on its side. The entrances feature paired wrought iron gates and a single side gate, all adorned with rich natural decoration. Lanterns are positioned on the main gate piers. The fountain has weathered coping and an elliptical bowl topped with a cusped nodding ogee canopy, which includes crockets and heads, though the finial is missing. The fountain also has a bronze fitting and a medallion depicting Temple Bar in London, with the base featuring a segmental arch over an elliptical dog bowl.
Local climate
Wall, Entrances and Drinking Fountain to Church of St Matthew and James sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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