Sunday School, in the Churchyard, Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Forest of Dean local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1985. Sunday school. 1 related planning application.
Sunday School, in the Churchyard, Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- little-granite-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Forest of Dean
- Constituency
- Forest of Dean MP: Matt Bishop (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 October 1985
- Type
- Sunday school
- Address
- Sunday School, in the Churchyard, Church of St Mary, Rudford and Highleadon, GL2 8DT
- OS grid reference
- SO 779 217
- Coordinates
- 51.89358, -2.3218
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Sunday School, located in the churchyard of the Church of St. Mary, dates from the late 19th century. It is constructed of coursed, roughly squared stone with ashlar dressings and has a tiled roof. The building consists of a single room with a lean-to extension on the left gable.
The entrance features a boarded door with moulded battens over the joints, a flat lintel, and is accessed by one stone step under an open porch. There are short spur walls on each side of the porch, with a timber post in front. The gable has a collar truss that is scalloped below, and an iron bracket for a lamp projects from the center. To the left, there is a decorative cast-iron rainwater head with a square pipe.
On the left side, a five-light mullioned window with a flat head is present, and set back on the left gable of the lean-to is a plain bargeboard with a slit window. A bellcote is situated on the right, featuring an open timber structure with a square shingled spire, a lead cap, and an iron spike. The building has crested ridge tiles and plain bargeboards on the gables. Inside, there is a stone fireplace on the back wall with a flat lintel that slopes back to the wall above.
The Sunday School forms a group with the Church of St. Mary and Ingleside Farmhouse.
Local climate
Sunday School, in the Churchyard, Church of St Mary receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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