Churchyard Walls and Piers to Church of St John is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. Churchyard boundary structure.
Churchyard Walls and Piers to Church of St John
- WRENN ID
- over-clay-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Churchyard boundary structure
- Address
- Churchyard Walls and Piers to Church of St John, Fortuneswell, Portland
- OS grid reference
- SY 686 735
- Coordinates
- 50.56059, -2.44394
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The churchyard walls and piers to the Church of St. John were built between 1839 and 1840. They are made of Portland ashlar and feature wrought and cast-iron elements. The boundary wall is constructed in squared and coursed blocks that follow the slope of the hill rather than a horizontal line, topped with a plain flush weathered coping and rising to approximately 1.5 meters across the full width of the churchyard.
At each end of the wall, there is a single pier, and in the center, a pair of piers raised on a simple plinth to the height of the wall, flanking a set of eight plain stone steps with return walls. These central piers support a simple iron overthrow and are each flanked by about 1 meter of iron railing. All the piers are square with a sunk panel on the face, topped with gabled capping, stepped weatherings, and roll capping.
On the left end, there is an opening leading to another flight of steps. To the left of this, along the northwest boundary of the churchyard, the wall rises at the far end to a flight of twelve steps that lead to a gate opening into the former Rectory garden.
Local climate
Churchyard Walls and Piers to Church of St John receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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