Churchyard Retaining Wall and Gateway South of St Levans Church is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 2001. Churchyard wall, gateway.
Churchyard Retaining Wall and Gateway South of St Levans Church
- WRENN ID
- open-portal-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Austell and Newquay MP: Noah Law (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 2001
- Type
- Churchyard wall, gateway
- Address
- Churchyard Retaining Wall and Gateway South of St Levans Church, St. Austell Bay
- OS grid reference
- SX 028 505
- Coordinates
- 50.32152, -4.77022
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The churchyard retaining wall and gateway, located south of the Church of St Levan, were built between 1884 and 1885 by J. Reeves. The wall is made of coursed stone and features ashlar gate-piers. It serves as a retaining wall for the churchyard, which is situated high above the road on the south side. The site slopes down, with an arch leading from the road to steps that ascend to the vestry above. At the west end, where the road aligns with the churchyard, there is a gateway flanked by ashlar piers topped with large pyramidal caps. A wrought-iron overthrow and lamp were added around 1897, and there is a late 20th-century wooden gate.
Local climate
Churchyard Retaining Wall and Gateway South of St Levans Church receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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