Tower to Former Church of St Hilary to South West of Present Church is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1952. A C13 Tower.
Tower to Former Church of St Hilary to South West of Present Church
- WRENN ID
- muffled-oriel-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Wallasey MP: Dame Angela Eagle (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1952
- Type
- Tower
- Address
- Tower to Former Church of St Hilary to South West of Present Church, Claremount Road
- OS grid reference
- SJ 296 921
- Coordinates
- 53.42126, -3.06033
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The tower to the former Church of St. Hilary, located to the southwest of the present church, dates back to the 13th century for its lower part, while the upper part features a datestone from 1530. Constructed from stone, the tower is three stages high and has diagonal buttresses. The north and east faces have blocked arches, and there are signs of a former lean-to roof on the east face. The north face also contains a blocked two-light window that has been inserted into an arch. The west face features a blocked window with three cusped lights, while the south face has a tall blocked opening with an inserted entrance that has a four-centred head and a datestone above it. The tower includes three-light louvred bell openings, a drip mould, and an embattled parapet adorned with gargoyles. The arches that once opened into the church were destroyed around 1850.
Local climate
Tower to Former Church of St Hilary to South West of Present Church sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 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 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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