Retaining Wall, Steps and Sundial at the West End of the Churchyard of Church of St Goran is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 November 1988. Retaining wall, sundial, steps.
Retaining Wall, Steps and Sundial at the West End of the Churchyard of Church of St Goran
- WRENN ID
- muffled-clay-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 November 1988
- Type
- Retaining wall, sundial, steps
- OS grid reference
- SW 999 422
- Coordinates
- 50.2465, -4.80772
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The retaining wall, steps, and sundial at the west end of the churchyard of the Church of St Goran were built in the 19th century. They are constructed from slatestone rubble and granite. The retaining wall is approximately 10 metres long and about one metre high on the inner side, featuring chamfered granite coping. The wall turns at a right angle to the steps, which consist of a flight of ten wide granite steps with a similar wall along the outer side. The inner side of the wall curves around for about 12 metres to the north, decreasing in height with the slope of the ground. There is a chamfered granite pier, about 1.5 metres high, integrated into the wall, which supports a copper sundial with a gnomon dated 1708.
Local climate
Retaining Wall, Steps and Sundial at the West End of the Churchyard of Church of St Goran receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% 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 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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