Wall with Remains of Pulpit Approximately 10 Metres to East of Convent Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 May 1955. Wall.
Wall with Remains of Pulpit Approximately 10 Metres to East of Convent Lodge
- WRENN ID
- tenth-corridor-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- The Wrekin MP: Mark Pritchard (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 May 1955
- Type
- Wall
- OS grid reference
- SJ 798 065
- Coordinates
- 52.65662, -2.29904
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The structure is a wall with the remains of a pulpit, located approximately 10 metres east of Convent Lodge. The wall dates back to 1821, while the pulpit is believed to be from around 1765 and was designed by 'Capability' Brown. The wall is made of squared and coursed sandstone and features an ashlar pulpit. It is approximately 40 metres long and 1.5 metres high.
The wall includes two groups of triple quatrefoiled segmental-arched niches with carved spandrels, as well as eight carved square panels depicting a butterfly, flower, mitre, crown, circle with cross, and shields. There are alternating pierced Latin and St. Andrew's crosses. The left-hand end pier and about 6 metres of the wall have collapsed, leaving pieces on the ground, including a square panel with a carved flower. The right-hand end pier was removed along with gates, gatepiers, and flanking walls from around 1765 to Marston Road, Wolverhampton in the late 1970s.
The remains of the central octagonal wall pulpit have a chamfered base and a carved rosette at the foot, though its superstructure has collapsed and is in pieces on the ground in front and behind the wall. A 19th-century illustration shows a serpent-shaped coping at the base of the pulpit, which is not visible in the collapsed remains. A similar structure existed on a wall in Tong Norton until its removal around 1890; both pulpits were likely inspired by the early 14th-century refectory pulpit at St. Mary's Abbey in Shrewsbury.
Local climate
Wall with Remains of Pulpit Approximately 10 Metres to East of Convent Lodge receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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