Carriage Ramps and Catacombs to Saint James' Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1952. Cemetery infrastructure.
Carriage Ramps and Catacombs to Saint James' Cemetery
- WRENN ID
- buried-sill-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Liverpool
- Constituency
- Liverpool Riverside MP: Kim Johnson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 June 1952
- Type
- Cemetery infrastructure
- Address
- Carriage Ramps and Catacombs to Saint James' Cemetery, St James' Road
- OS grid reference
- SJ 354 895
- Coordinates
- 53.39854, -2.97161
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The carriage ramps and catacombs at Saint James' Cemetery were built in 1827 by J. Foster. They feature intersecting sloping carriageways with battered rusticated retaining walls that enclose the catacombs. The structure is partly cut into the rock.
Local climate
Carriage Ramps and Catacombs to Saint James' Cemetery 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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