Sandstone Wall All Round Churchyard, with One Entrance on County Road, One at the Junction of County Road and Church Lane, and One on Walton Village. is a Grade II listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1975. Wall.
Sandstone Wall All Round Churchyard, with One Entrance on County Road, One at the Junction of County Road and Church Lane, and One on Walton Village.
- WRENN ID
- strange-spandrel-thistle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Liverpool
- Constituency
- Liverpool Walton MP: Dan Carden (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1975
- Type
- Wall
- Address
- Sandstone Wall All Round Churchyard, with One Entrance on County Road, One at the Junction of County Road and Church Lane, and One on Walton Village., Church of St Mary
- OS grid reference
- SJ 358 948
- Coordinates
- 53.44627, -2.96766
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sandstone wall enclosing the churchyard of St. Mary's Church. The wall dates to the 19th century and extends for approximately 301.5 metres. A section of the wall facing County Road was rebuilt in the early 20th century and is constructed of ashlar stone with weathered coping, while the section bordering Walton Village is of rubble construction. There are three entrances: one on County Road, one at the junction of County Road and Church Lane, and one on Walton Village. Each entrance features stone piers with two tiers of arched panels, with weathering between, and are gabled on all four sides. Iron overthrow gates with traceried spandrels originally supported lanterns; the overthrow on Walton Village remains intact. The Walton Village section of the wall is interrupted by the adjacent mortuary and hearse house.
The section of wall facing County Road incorporates a red granite 'Melly' drinking fountain with an altered backplate and a replacement ashlar pediment inscribed with '1861'. The original bronze ornamental head water spout and tap are missing. This fountain was moved 36 metres north-east at the turn of the 20th century.
The churchyard wall is of special historic interest as an important feature alongside the grade II listed church, hearse house and mortuary. The Melly fountain is one of the earliest drinking fountains in England, erected in 1861 by the Victorian philanthropist Charles Pierre Melly. Melly was a promoter of physical fitness and early Olympic movement in Britain.
Local climate
Sandstone Wall All Round Churchyard, with One Entrance on County Road, One at the Junction of County Road and Church Lane, and One on Walton Village. sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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