Wall to Cannington College on Roadside and Bounding Churchyard, Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1985. Wall.
Wall to Cannington College on Roadside and Bounding Churchyard, Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- silent-niche-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Bridgwater MP: Sir Ashley Fox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 June 1985
- Type
- Wall
- Address
- Wall to Cannington College on Roadside and Bounding Churchyard, Church of St Mary, Fore Street
- OS grid reference
- ST 258 396
- Coordinates
- 51.15125, -3.06118
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The wall surrounding Cannington College, which also borders the churchyard of the Church of St Mary, is likely from the 17th century. It runs almost continuously around the college grounds on the north, south, east, and west sides. Constructed from red sandstone rubble, the wall features low single-stage red sandstone buttresses at intervals with rubble offsets. It stretches 130 meters along Fore Street, 70 meters along Brook Street, and 50 meters along Church Street, with a broad gateway onto Brook Street that has plank gates. Additionally, there is a further section extending 100 meters westward from the southern end on Brook Street. The wall varies in height between 3 and 4 meters and likely marks the boundary of the lay wing of the Priory of Benedictine Nuns, which was located at the site of Cannington Court.
Local climate
Wall to Cannington College on Roadside and Bounding Churchyard, Church of St Mary receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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