Length of Wall with Gate Adjoining Roman Catholic Cathedral is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1995. Wall and gate.
Length of Wall with Gate Adjoining Roman Catholic Cathedral
- WRENN ID
- grim-soffit-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- Shrewsbury MP: Julia Buckley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 November 1995
- Type
- Wall and gate
- OS grid reference
- SJ 491 122
- Coordinates
- 52.70515, -2.7541
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a wall and gate built around 1860, located next to the Roman Catholic Cathedral in Shrewsbury. The structure is made of coursed and squared sandstone and features buttresses and raking copings. There is a small lych-gate with a leaded bell-cast roof, which is supported by timber struts and has a cross finial on the ridge. The wall and gate are included for their group value with the cathedral.
Local climate
Length of Wall with Gate Adjoining Roman Catholic Cathedral receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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