South and west boundary wall to churchyard returned to High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Brighton and Hove local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 November 1992. A Medieval Boundary wall.

South and west boundary wall to churchyard returned to High Street

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Brighton and Hove
Constituency
Hove and Portslade MP: Peter Kyle (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 November 1992
Type
Boundary wall
Period
Medieval
Address
South and west boundary wall to churchyard returned to High Street, the City of Brighton and Hove
OS grid reference
TQ 255 063
Coordinates
50.84302, -0.21866
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The south and west boundary wall of the churchyard, which returns to High Street, is of medieval origin and has been rebuilt and renewed over time. It features coursed flint pebble facing combined with red brick, cement, and bonnet tile coping.

The wall runs continuously from the entrance to the churchyard of St Nicolas's Church, extending northward as the south and west boundary of the churchyard, and continues along the footpath to High Street. The total length is approximately 150 meters, and there is an entrance arch set into the wall near the junction with the footpath.

The height of the churchyard walls varies between 1 to 2 meters, topped with cement coping, while the section along the footpath reaches about 3 meters high, featuring vertical panels of brickwork and late 20th-century bonnet tile coping, sloping down at the High Street end. The doorway is made of the same stone as the west door of the tower of St Nicolas's Church. It is a chamfered pointed arch opening, believed to be medieval and likely reset from the nearby ruined manor house. The walls are part of a significant group with the adjacent structures.

Local climate

South and west boundary wall to churchyard returned to High Street receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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