St Lawrence's churchyard wall, entrance arches and gates to south and west is a Grade II listed building in the Staffordshire Moorlands local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 November 1987. A 19th century Churchyard wall.

St Lawrence's churchyard wall, entrance arches and gates to south and west

WRENN ID
roaming-railing-tallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Staffordshire Moorlands
Constituency
Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 November 1987
Type
Churchyard wall
Period
19th century
Address
St Lawrence's churchyard wall, entrance arches and gates to south and west, Church of St Lawrence, Congleton Road, Biddulph, ST8 7RG
OS grid reference
SJ 889 589
Coordinates
53.12792, -2.16611
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

St Lawrence's churchyard wall, entrance arches, and gates are located to the south and west of St Lawrence's Church and were built in 1835. The churchyard wall is made of rock-faced ashlar and stands approximately 1.5 meters high, sloping upwards to the south, with a steeply pitched coping.

The south entry features an archway with traceried spandrels, flanked by weathered buttresses, and has florets on the cornice, along with a crenellated parapet raised over central date panels. The west entry is similar but larger, featuring a Tudor arch.

Local climate

St Lawrence's churchyard wall, entrance arches and gates to south and west receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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