Section of Churchyard Wall at East End of Churchyard of St Swithun's with Built in Fragments and Two Seats is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1983. Monument.
Section of Churchyard Wall at East End of Churchyard of St Swithun's with Built in Fragments and Two Seats
- WRENN ID
- dark-belfry-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Constituency
- Bath MP: Wera Hobhouse (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 October 1983
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Section of Churchyard Wall at East End of Churchyard of St Swithun's with Built in Fragments and Two Seats, Church Street, Bathford
- OS grid reference
- ST 789 665
- Coordinates
- 51.39778, -2.3046
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a section of the churchyard wall located at the east end of the churchyard of St. Swithun's, built around 1870. The wall incorporates fragments of 12th-century Romanesque carving and features two ashlar seats. The structure consists of rubble walls with ashlar seats and hoods, along with freestone carving. On the left side, there are two plain ashlar seats set in recesses and covered by stone hoods supported by brackets. On the right side, there is a shallow, plain piscina with a segmental head. Beneath a flat stone hood on brackets, the Romanesque fragments include a much-mutilated figure, possibly of an angel or a bishop (St. Swithin), flanked by two engaged columns adorned with Chevron and bead decoration and coarse cushion-type capitals. Additionally, there are fragments of a decorated round arch featuring dogtooth moulding.
Local climate
Section of Churchyard Wall at East End of Churchyard of St Swithun's with Built in Fragments and Two Seats receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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