Ruins of Windleshaw Abbey in Roman Catholic Cemetery (Chapel of Saint Thomas of Canterbury) is a Grade II* listed building in the St. Helens local planning authority area, England. A C15 Ruins, chapel.
Ruins of Windleshaw Abbey in Roman Catholic Cemetery (Chapel of Saint Thomas of Canterbury)
- WRENN ID
- calm-spandrel-alder
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- St. Helens
- Constituency
- St Helens North MP: David Baines (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Ruins, chapel
- Address
- Ruins of Windleshaw Abbey in Roman Catholic Cemetery (Chapel of Saint Thomas of Canterbury), Abbey Road
- OS grid reference
- SJ 499 969
- Coordinates
- 53.46699, -2.75522
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The ruins of Windleshaw Abbey, located in the Roman Catholic Cemetery on Abbey Road in St. Helens, date back to around 1453 and include the west tower and parts of the walls of the chantry chapel built by Sir Thomas Gerard. The structure is made of stone and features a pointed entrance and a west window that shows signs of a tracery head, likely designed with three lights. The tower has two-light bell openings with reticulated tracery, although some tracery bars are missing on the south side. Inside, there is a plain chamfered tower arch. The walls, which have been partly reconstructed, support various memorials, including a Celtic-style cross located at the east end.
Local climate
Ruins of Windleshaw Abbey in Roman Catholic Cemetery (Chapel of Saint Thomas of Canterbury) 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 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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