Walls Enclosing the Churchyard, Church of St Leonard is a Grade II listed building in the Lewes local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 February 1993. Boundary wall.

Walls Enclosing the Churchyard, Church of St Leonard

WRENN ID
idle-transept-candle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lewes
Constituency
Lewes MP: James MacCleary (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 February 1993
Type
Boundary wall
Address
Walls Enclosing the Churchyard, Church of St Leonard, Heighton Road, Newhaven
OS grid reference
TQ 454 025
Coordinates
50.80443, 0.06292
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The walls enclosing the churchyard of the Church of St Leonard in Newhaven date from the late medieval period and the 18th to 19th centuries, with repairs made in the 20th century. The walls are constructed of unknapped flint and feature a cement coping. They serve as the boundary wall of the churchyard along Heighton Road and extend along the southern side of the churchyard as an embankment wall, which forms the boundary with the Manor House. Part of this wall includes a standing section from an unidentified medieval structure, measuring about 5 meters long and 2 meters high, which contains a piece of dressed stone that may have been reset and is possibly part of an early 16th-century window opening. Several medieval buildings once stood near the churchyard but were removed during the 18th century.

Local climate

Walls Enclosing the Churchyard, Church of St Leonard 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 97% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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