Churchyard Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1974. Churchyard wall.
Churchyard Wall
- WRENN ID
- still-basalt-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 February 1974
- Type
- Churchyard wall
- Address
- Churchyard Wall, Chapel Street, Penzance, TR18 4AQ
- OS grid reference
- SW 475 300
- Coordinates
- 50.11659, -5.53286
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The churchyard wall, built in the 19th century, is constructed from granite rubble and surrounds the churchyard. It is topped with iron railings featuring arrowhead shafts. There is a gateway with four octagonal gate piers. On the east side, there is a high pointed arch doorway with the date 1672 carved into the granite arch. To the right of this doorway is a fountain, which has flanking pilasters with cusped headed panels and is dated 1855. On the south side, there is another gateway, dated 1883, which has a four-centred arch and a raised parapet.
Local climate
Churchyard Wall sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 1 freeze-thaw cycle a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. 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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