Retaining Wall to West Of, and Railings to South of Church of Our Lady and St Nicholas is a Grade II listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1985. Retaining wall.
Retaining Wall to West Of, and Railings to South of Church of Our Lady and St Nicholas
- WRENN ID
- roaming-bastion-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Liverpool
- Constituency
- Liverpool Riverside MP: Kim Johnson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1985
- Type
- Retaining wall
- Address
- Retaining Wall to West Of, and Railings to South of Church of Our Lady and St Nicholas, Chapel Street
- OS grid reference
- SJ 339 904
- Coordinates
- 53.40674, -2.99506
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The retaining wall to the west of the Church of Our Lady and St Nicholas was built in 1885. It is made of stone and features a moulded plinth and coping, along with iron railings. There is a gateway with iron gates that are pointed and have battlements above, flanked by crocketed pinnacles. The end stone gate piers also have crocketed pinnacles. To the south of the churchyard, there are iron railings supported by 19th-century iron piers designed in the form of fasces, as well as stone gate piers topped with caps.
Local climate
Retaining Wall to West Of, and Railings to South of Church of Our Lady and St Nicholas 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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