Wall and gateway approximately 14 metres to south of Chancel of Church of St. John the Baptist is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 January 1985. Wall and gateway.
Wall and gateway approximately 14 metres to south of Chancel of Church of St. John the Baptist
- WRENN ID
- bitter-obsidian-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 January 1985
- Type
- Wall and gateway
- OS grid reference
- SO 323 883
- Coordinates
- 52.48922, -2.99803
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The wall and gateway located approximately 14 metres south of the chancel of the Church of St. John the Baptist were built around 1860 and incorporate early 13th-century remains from the earlier church. The wall is constructed of coursed limestone rubble with sandstone ashlar details, measuring about 22 metres long and 1.5 metres high, oriented from north-west to south-east. At the north-west end, there is a re-sited doorway featuring a moulded pointed arch with three orders of shafts that have stiff-leaf capitals, along with a boarded door that has decorative strap hinges. The south-east end includes a re-sited triple sedilia with moulded shafts that extend without capitals to moulded cinquefoiled arches set within overall square heads, backed by re-used tombstones to the north-east. The site also references a re-sited piscina, a cusped window head, and a large Jacobean figure believed to represent Gervas Needham, although these elements were not visible during the last survey in June 1984.
Local climate
Wall and gateway approximately 14 metres to south of Chancel of Church of St. John the Baptist receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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