Walls Surrounding the Churchyard to Church of St Andrew, with Gates is a Grade II listed building in the Forest of Dean local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 March 1988. Churchyard wall.
Walls Surrounding the Churchyard to Church of St Andrew, with Gates
- WRENN ID
- secret-pilaster-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Forest of Dean
- Constituency
- Forest of Dean MP: Matt Bishop (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 March 1988
- Type
- Churchyard wall
- Address
- Walls Surrounding the Churchyard to Church of St Andrew, with Gates, Woolaston
- OS grid reference
- ST 586 993
- Coordinates
- 51.69159, -2.59929
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The walls surrounding the churchyard of the Church of St Andrew, with gates, are likely from the 19th century. They are constructed of sandstone rubble topped with saddle-back coping made from on-edge blocks, and feature iron gates. The walls form a complete, roughly oval circuit, with the Church of St Andrew located towards the west end. The walls vary in height but are generally around 1.5 metres tall. At the east end, there are a pair of square piers measuring approximately 620 millimetres square and 2.5 metres high, capped by low pyramids with roll moulding. This area includes a pair of gates with spearhead railings and, to their left, a pedestrian swing-gate enclosed by a half-circle rail. On the south side, opposite a later cemetery, there is a similar small iron gate, and directly across on the north side, there is another small pedestrian swing gate in a half-circle enclosure. At the west end, there is a round arched opening with a small diagonally-planked door, and the path here drops down, with the encircling wall rising to about 2.5 metres high. The shape of the circuit suggests it may have been a Celtic site.
Local climate
Walls Surrounding the Churchyard to Church of St Andrew, with Gates receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% 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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