Retaining Walls and Stairs in Church Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Nottingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1995. Retaining walls, stairs.
Retaining Walls and Stairs in Church Cemetery
- WRENN ID
- former-rafter-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Nottingham
- Constituency
- Nottingham East MP: Nadia Whittome (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1995
- Type
- Retaining walls, stairs
- Address
- Retaining Walls and Stairs in Church Cemetery, Mansfield Road, City of Nottingham
- OS grid reference
- SK 567 412
- Coordinates
- 52.96517, -1.15597
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The retaining walls and stairs in the church cemetery date from 1851 to 1856 and are constructed from rockfaced Bulwell stone and ashlar. The burial plot is designed as a semicircular amphitheatre, located in a former sand quarry that is approximately 10 meters deep and 60 meters wide. Surrounding the plot are retaining walls featuring continuous pointed arches separated by buttresses, topped with a coped parapet wall. On the north-east side, there is a tunnel entrance leading from Mansfield Road. The north-west side features an ashlar stairway supported by segmental pointed arches, flanked by a balustrade wall with stepped coping. The cemetery includes many multiple burials from around 1900 to 1914, in addition to conventional internments. The landscaping of the church cemetery was carried out by Edwin Patchitt of Nottingham in 1856.
Local climate
Retaining Walls and Stairs in Church Cemetery sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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