Abbey Precinct Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Tewkesbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1952. Boundary wall.
Abbey Precinct Wall
- WRENN ID
- distant-rotunda-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tewkesbury
- Constituency
- Tewkesbury MP: Cameron Thomas (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 March 1952
- Type
- Boundary wall
- Address
- Abbey Precinct Wall, Gloucester Road
- OS grid reference
- SO 888 324
- Coordinates
- 51.99014, -2.16311
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Abbey Precinct wall is a late medieval structure that serves as a boundary to Abbey Court. It is constructed from rough squared and coursed limestone and sandstone. The wall runs for approximately 100 meters from the southern end of Abbey Barton, then returns for about 30 meters to a pier at Gloucester Road. From Abbey Barton, a section of the wall rises to 3.5 meters before stepping down to around 2 meters. The top of the wall is only partly coped and is heavily overgrown. Where the stone remains at full height, there are heavy saddle-back copings that are sometimes still in place. The return section of the wall varies in height and ends at a rectangular sandstone pier topped with stepped pyramidal capping. This wall is an important historical remnant from the Benedictine abbey and can also be seen in part across the road at Abbey Cottages.
Local climate
Abbey Precinct Wall receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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