Churchyard Wall at Church of St Mary the Virgin is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. Wall.
Churchyard Wall at Church of St Mary the Virgin
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-barrel-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Wall
- Address
- Churchyard Wall at Church of St Mary the Virgin, Church Street, Gamlingay
- OS grid reference
- TL 240 523
- Coordinates
- 52.15508, -0.18755
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The churchyard wall at the Church of St Mary the Virgin is a medieval structure that has been repaired over time. It is built from fieldstone and features limestone gabled coping with roll moulding along the ridge.
Local climate
Churchyard Wall at Church of St Mary the Virgin sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 98% 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 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.4°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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